[Dialogue] News from Burma

[Ann Shafer]

Is anyone on the list active with Amnesty International? We used to write
letters to cruel dictators and others in power about the torture and killing
they were perpetrating when I was active with Amnesty in Omaha. The premise
was that when it was no longer in secret, change began. I just wonder if
Amnesty International is doing anything about Burma. And/or what any of us
can and should do. Ann Shafer

 

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of George Holcombe
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 8:23 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community; ICA LIST SERVE
Subject: [Dialogue] News from Burma

 

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

14900 Yellowleaf Tr.

Austin, TX 78728

Home: 512/252-2756

Mobile 512/294-5952

HYPERLINK "mailto:geowanda at earthlink.net"geowanda at earthlink.net





 


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