What Part of Junta Didn’t They Get?
Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling Buddhist monks away in trucks Wednesday as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly.
About 300 monks and activists were arrested across Yangon, according to an exile dissident group, and reporters saw a number of monks — who are highly revered in Myanmar — being dragged into trucks.
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A march toward the center of Yangon followed a tense confrontation at the city’s famed Shwedagon Pagoda between the protesters and riot police who fired warning shots into the air, beat some monks and dragged others away into waiting trucks.
If this is the end of it, what will the rest of it have been all about? There’s a koan for the monks to consider while in prison.
Flick said,
September 28, 2007 @ 12:45 am
So…I am not sure of your actual point. Are you in agreement with the monks or are you siding with the militaristic government. I feel you are asserting the monks were foolish in their approach to rebuking the government yet, I can not believe an American citizen would actually do that. I mean, you do understand that by staying out past curfew and crossing military-established boundaries they are demonstrating to their fullest abilities, and non-violently all the while.
I think you are siding with the goverment’s reaction to the demonstrations. Please tell me I am completely wrong…
Flick