Mass Suffering and Repression in Burma


	Mass Suffering and Repression in Burma

abailart

10-3-2007 4:09 AM

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10-3-2007 8:51 AM

neochonetes

The military junta made many Burmese disappear in the 1980's and they continue to do what no country will stop them from doing, disappearing people.

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With its rusty barbed wire fence, dense tropical foliage and acreage of
decaying buildings, the former Government Technology Institute in Rangoon
would be a spooky place at the best of times. In the past week, however, if
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One international organisation based in Rangoon has made a provisional
reckoning of 40 dead, based on reports from hospitals, 1,000 monks arrested
and 3,000 secular detainees</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2577636.ece">large numbers of people are being held in an
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Despite the international attention given to the quashing of the
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formed the backbone of the tens of thousands of people who turned out last
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