Enough please about the Burmese monks! More please about the Burmese monks!
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This is the body of a *monk* found in a creek in Burma. The photos were on MoeMaKa Media, a blog covering the demonstrations.
This is a government that kills not only its own people, but also its religious leaders.
I have not put up other disturbing photographs from the crackdown, like one of a [...]
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About 500 people, including 11 monks, gathered for a vigil in Monterey Park in L.A. County today to show their support of the Burmese uprising. The monks leading the service spoke about the atrocities being commited by the Burmese junta on their own people this past week. They mentioned the rumors that the junta has [...]
The Burmese junta cut off all internal access to the Internet on Friday morning as its crackdown on the demonstrations continues. The government has not allowed foreign correspondents into the country, so journalists have relied on the people inside Burma to smuggle out information, photos and videos. Their stories— mostly sent out by email— have [...]
The Burmese junta continues to order troops to beat up monks and protesters as it cracks down on the mass demonstrations in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime). Reports coming out of Burma say that troops attacked people at a monastery in Rangoon Thursday morning and then arrested about 100 monks and laymen. An American [...]
On my second day living in Rangoon, Burma (renamed Yangon, Myanmar, by the ruling junta), I visited the blockaded American Embassy. After my passport was passed from person to person to person, I got in.
It was August 2003. Burma had been ruled by an oppressive, military dictatorship for more than 40 years.
I was [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Burmese monks and civilians have spent the past week marching in cities across the country, demanding change. They want an end to the repressive, tyrannical rule of the junta. They want free and fair elections.
These are the biggest protests in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the junta) since 1988, when the army [...]
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