[Buddha-l] News from Burma

[jkirk]

"Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s Prime Minister, said that Tokyo would press the
regime for a full explanation of Nagai’s death, nonetheless ruling out
immediate sanctions against Burma." 
Japan won't do anything significant despite this deliberate murder of one of
their mediamen.
Just shocking.
Joanna

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The day Burma was silenced.
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2545351.ece>:

<<...
In the Mwe Kya Kan pagoda in the South Okkala district of Rangoon, it began
at 2am, but seven hours later the evidence was plain to see – a dozen thick
patches of congealing blood and human tissue splashed about the yard. The
windows of the monks’ dormitories were smashed jaggedly by the impact of
rubber bullets – hard, round spheres fired from green cartridges that the
monks had carefully gathered up and put on display.

Inside everything had been smashed – the thin plywood walls, the monks’
plaster statues of the Buddha – and the thin mattresses were soaked with
blood.

“We had to flee for our lives into the neighbourhood,” said a small
bespectacled young man named Ashin Thu, one of the few monks to have evaded
arrest. “A family let me hide in one of their houses, I was so scared.”

The bullets may have been rubber, but at close range they can still do great
damage. Seventy monks were driven away bleeding in 24 military vehicles and,
to judge from the pools of blood in the yard, several of them were gravely
injured. 
...>>

Photographer's last seconds caught on film
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2554727.ece>

<< Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has
been shown on Japanese television, horrifying a nation and raising official
suspicion that the 50-year-old journalist was murdered by Burmese troops.
The shaky, indistinct moments of footage appear to show Nagai, who was in a
crowd of demonstrators, shoved violently to the ground by a soldier and shot
dead at point-blank range.>>


Satellites confirm reports of Myanmar violence
<http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSN28447581>

<< WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Satellite images confirm reports earlier
this year of burned villages, forced relocations and other human rights
abuses in Myanmar, scientists said on Friday.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science said the
high-resolution photographs taken by commercial satellites document a
growing military presence at 25 sites across eastern Myanmar, matching
eyewitness reports.

"We found evidence of 18 villages that essentially disappeared," AAAS
researcher Lars Bromley said in an interview.
...>

- C

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