[Oe List ...] News from Burma

[Wilson Priscilla]

Thank you, George, for this painful report. We suspected the  
truth...but prayed this wouldn't be what happened. Somedays it is  
hard to live in the real world.
Priscilla

On Oct 3, 2007, at 8:23 PM, George Holcombe wrote:

> 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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Priscilla Wilson
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