To the 18-year-old novice monk, the makeshift jail seemed like a deliberate mockery of life in the Buddhist monastery from which he had been dragged. Sitting in rows from one end of the room to the other were hundreds of hushed, cross-legged figures, their heads bowed and their eyes shut tight. (more…)
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Daily Archive
Telegraph: Burmese monk speaks of interrogation horror – Alan Brown in Rangoon
Sun 7 Oct 2007
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
Sun 7 Oct 2007
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
Yangon: A relentless crackdown on Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists showed no sign of easing with the junta announcing on Sunday that 78 more people have been detained in spite of global outrage and new sanctions.
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