Burmese monks to be "sent away". BBC

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

It is to weep.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7022437.stm

Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.

About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.

They are being held at a disused race course and a technical college.

Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon.

The monks have been disrobed and shackled, the sources told BBC radio's Burmese service. There are reports that the monks are refusing to eat.



The banned opposition broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma has issued a picture which they say shows the body of a monk floating near the mouth of the Rangoon river.

[hobbit709]

1. Euphemism for "death march"

[zbdent]

12. watch for the phrase

"for their own protection" ...

[blondeatlast]

13. I wouldn't be surprsed. this is heartbreaking. nt

[pinto]

2. Agghhh. n/t

[Breeze54]

3. This is a cover up of the murders of the Monks!

Death camps is right! :grr:

This is all so sad and frustrating, I feel really bad for the people of Burma/Mayanmar.

[thereismore]

4. concentration camps. nt

[Mike03]

5. Rips your heart out

I was just posting on this topic on another thread. "Sent Away" is most surely a euphemism for sent onto their next lives, which they most likely believe in as Buddhists. What a shocking crime, what a humanitarian disaster. As I wrote a few nights ago, Buddhists cannot even kill the lice that may grow in their own hair (if they have hair). To slaughter them in this way, I think, is beyond an outrage and will not go over well with the citizens of Burma or the international community.

Om Mani Padme Hum

[uppityperson]

6. k&r

[blondeatlast]

7. All I can offer is a prayer that the peace and goodness of the monks can somehow

redeem their tormentors.

This is horrifying. May they find the hope, peace, and light they sought in the next life; there is surely none left for them in this one.

I'm in tears.

[blondeatlast]

8. Two more recommends, DU--there are precious few places to get the real story.

I'm proud that DU is one.

Just two more, please.

[IndyOp]

9. Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

A Swedish diplomat who visited Burma during the protests said last night that in her opinion the revolution has failed. "The military regime won and a new generation has been violently repressed and violently denied democracy. The people in the street were young people, monks and civilians who were not participating during the 1988 revolt."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3012305

[Lilith Velkor]

10. That is so fucked up

:cry:

[Pachamama]

11. Why aren't other countries stepping in? Where's the outrage? Why aren't they offering political

and religious asylum????

I feel sick when I look at that picture and when I think of all those monks and what is being done and going to be done to those still alive.

And ofcourse, China, that leader in human rights that enables the Junta of Myanmar, shame, shame on them for allowing this to happen too....

[Xithras]

15. China is why

Nobody wants to piss China off, and China has already made it clear that they will not accept foreign military intervention in Burma.

[Mike03]

19. Yes, why not India?

Why not the Dalai Lama? I cannot believe His Holiness the Dalai Lama has not stepped in and said something or tried to influence countries to help.

[Pachamama]

23. I agree....I'm shocked that the Dalai Lama hasn't along with China reached out to get those monks to

be able to seek refuge....

So sad... :cry:

[blondeatlast]

14. K. nt

[EFerrari]

16. If we ignore this, shame on us.

K&R

[EFerrari]

17. Btw, we need kickers on emlev's resource thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1954428&mesg_id=1954428

[AuntPatsy]

18. Out and out murder......

[EFerrari]

20. Kick

[Blackhatjack]

21. Typical explanation for detainees who are 'missing' is to say they were sent elsewhere...

I would surmise that most of these monks are already dead.

Brutal regimes make no distinction between monks and civilians when it comes to any threat to their authority.

[Ilsa]

22. Hey Bush, how about some democracy before the death march commences? nt