[Dialogue] News from Burma

[George Holcombe]

REPORT FROM BURMA: UM NeXus received the following email Oct. 2. It  
was forwarded through a network of interreligious contacts, whose  
names are withheld for their protection:

"We just got [a] phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a  
few hours ago. We saw on BBC World, saying that 200 monks were  
arrested. The true picture is far worse!!!
"The monastery at an obscure neighborhood of Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar  
Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon), had been raided early this  
morning.
"A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs),  
protected by military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying  
monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and  
banged and crushed each one's head against the brick wall of the  
monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non-resisting monks, fell to the  
ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off their red robes and  
threw them all (like rice bags) in the military trucks and took the  
bodies away.
"The head monk was tied up in the middle of the monastery, tortured,  
bludgeoned, and later died the same day.
"Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded  
off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to help their helpless  
monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every try to  
forge ahead was met with the bayonets.
"When all is done, only 10 out of 200 monks remained alive, hiding in  
the monastery. Blood stained everywhere on the walls and floors of  
the monastery.
"Please tell your audience of the full extent of the fate of the  
monks, please, please!!! 'Arrested' is not enough expression. They  
have been bludgeoned to death!!!!!!"


George Holcombe
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Austin, TX 78728
Home: 512/252-2756
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