[Buddha-l] Burmese sangha in action

[jkirk]

Unless the boycotting monks (and any other groups now threatening to join
them) are willing to die, their resistance will be stamped out.
The junta is extremely well-armed, thanks to China and other countries
happily selling them 
arms and warfare machines such as tanks, rocket propellers, airplanes, et
al. Thailand may interfere as well on the side of the junta, (or its sangha
not offer any assistance moral or otherwise to the Burmese monks), since
they have been going along with the junta for years. 
If the monk boycott manages to unite into action the other groups now
underground, and they are all willing to die for the cause, they just might
bring an end to military rule with some hope for a peaceful Burma. But I'm
not holding my breath.

Pessimistically yours,
Joanna
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Will they be a force for change?

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/17/myanmar.monks.ap/index.html

W.F. Wong

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