[Buddha-l] BURMA [Fwd: News from Burma: bludgeoning monks bythe'lone-tein' ]

[L.S. Cousins]

Well, they won't be 'novices', but the majority of monks in Burma at 
this time (October) will have been ordained in the last few months.

No doubt, a few will be politically oriented individuals seeking a 
lever against the regime. But of course shooting monks would hardly 
be acceptable even if they had only been ordained a day !

The problem is that the mainstay of the regime is hostility to 
foreign influence. So it is hard to imagine anything which will do 
more to support the military than protests by foreigners, especially 
westerners. And especially speeches by Bush, Brown and the like.

Lance

>I received an SMS asking people to wear red today (but I did not as I do not
>have any red shirts) in support of the monks and protesters in Myanmar. I
>promptly forwarded it to a group of friends. This is a response from one of
>them:
>
>"These are foreign power motivated. These "monks" may be short term novices.
>Stay off. Shall not forward."
>
>W.F. Wong