Image taken from Bbc News
I had planned to write about something different but the events unfolding in Burma overwhelm and touch me especially because I visited the country and I saw with my own eyes how people were living under the dictatorship, the fear in their eyes, the refugee camps along the Burmese-Thai border, the poverty, despite that Burmese were the kindest and most hospitable people I came across through my journey around South-East Asia. Language was never a problem although few people could speak English and my knowledge of Burmese was really reduced. Their fight is a lesson for all of us.
Here is an extract from Ko-Htike's blog about the desperate situation in Rangoon:
To all folk, it is really bad in YGN, pLs can someone do something for our country, now inside YGN it has been look like War Zone, i even heard stooting over the phone. it is over 50 shots, right now. but people are not giving up to protest and more and more people coming out to street.
they even used tear gas into primary school.
Now, the government is trying to make a diversion. They give 10,000 kyats (around $7) & a set of Thin Gan (yellow robe) to "Swan Arr Shin"(like USDA which the form as a group that to crash down violently to protester) team and make them to pretend as Monks. Then, command to destroy the Islamic Mosque. This intends to become a fight between Buddhisms & Islams. So, if u hear or see the news that the monks are destroying the Mosque, these are not real monks. They are just fakes. As u all know, the real monks have no intention like that. So, give this information to Islams who u know and tell them.
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