Turmoil at Myanmar

[Maxus-MIFA9]

What do you know, New Paper headline read that the family members of the junta (general) had fled to neighbouring country Loas.

 

His second in command does not see eye to eye with the general because of the shooting and killing of the monks. And military personnel stationed outside Yangon is preparing to enter the capital. Reason unknown as whether the fresh troops are there to go against the currently troops in the capital or to increase military strength in the capital.

 

Hope that they could end in peaceful means.

[Apollo]

i seen it, but my sources say the family is in Singapore. hee rumor hor.. dun believe until ST publish it.

 

hur hur

Edited September 29, 2007 by Apollo

[Darth_mel]

Not surprising if his family is here. We have "close" relation with Burma OK ?

[Cheekg98]

UN envoy meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar

Updated: 30 Sep 2007 1733 hrs UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday in the main city Yangon after he earlier held talks with junta leaders, a security official said.

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Edited September 30, 2007 by Cheekg98

[Cheekg98]

Global firms provide lifeline to Myanmar's government

Posted: 30 September 2007 1328 hrs Photos 1 of 1

Residents queue up to get their petrol quota in central Yangon Special Report

[Nutty]

Petition signing at Myanmar embassy in Singapore.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 1, 2007 by Nutty

[Nutty]

Myanmar - Juntas shooting and beating up protestors.

 

Singaopore - Friendly ISD folks getting praised for being courteous in using persuasion to disperse protestors.

[Apollo]

it's a farce.. myanmar has oil and natural gas which they pipe to china and india. yet they hv to jack up their own prices.

 

[Apollo]

another farce!

 

no Polis in sight!

 

no Ang Chias in sight!

 

only ultraman TOY is a security threat tat can get 4 ang chia! pui!

[Mzrmazda3]

not as bad as foot soldiers i mean rangers

 

 

Agree Bro

 

Cannot imagine that they are fighting bare footed man

[Mzrmazda3]

 

Though it is not live bullets but to kena wack from these rubber pellets also jialat man

 

ya!!! look at the bruises.... but rubber bullets can still kill when shot at point blank range.

 

Yeah Bro

[Altivo]

taken from the below webby

 

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article...ngle/article.do

 

 

Executed: The body of a Buddhist monk floats in a river

 

 

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

01.10.07

 

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

 

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

 

Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

 

Meanwhile, the United Nations special envoy was in Burma's new capital today seeking meetings with the ruling military junta.

 

Ibrahim Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon yesterday. But he has yet to meet the country's senior generals as he attempts to halt violence against monks and pro-democracy activists.

 

It is anticipated the meeting will happen tomorrow.

 

Heavily-armed troops and police flooded the streets of Rangoon during Mr Ibrahim's visit to prevent new protests.

 

Mr Gambari met some of the country's military leaders in Naypyidaw yesterday and has returned there for further talks. But he did not meet senior general Than Shwe or his deputy Maung Aye - and they have issued no comment.

 

Reports from exiles along the frontier confirmed that hundreds of monks had simply "disappeared" as 20,000 troops swarmed around Rangoon yesterday to prevent further demonstrations by religious groups and civilians.

 

Word reaching dissidents hiding out on the border suggested that as well as executions, some 2,000 monks are being held in the notorious Insein Prison or in university rooms which have been turned into cells.

 

There were reports that many were savagely beaten at a sports ground on the outskirts of Rangoon, where they were heard crying for help.

 

Others who had failed to escape disguised as civilians were locked in their bloodstained temples.

 

There, troops abandoned religious beliefs, propped their rifles against statues of Buddha and began cooking meals on stoves set up in shrines.

 

In stark contrast, the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay - centres of the attempted saffron revolution last week - were virtually deserted.

 

A Swedish diplomat who visited Burma during the protests said last night that in her opinion the revolution has failed.

 

Liselotte Agerlid, who is now in Thailand, said that the Burmese people now face possibly decades of repression. "The Burma revolt is over," she added.

 

"The military regime won and a new generation has been violently repressed and violently denied democracy. The people in the street were young people, monks and civilians who were not participating during the 1988 revolt.

 

"Now the military has cracked down the revolt, and the result may very well be that the regime will enjoy another 20 years of silence, ruling by fear."

 

Mrs Agerlid said Rangoon is heavily guarded by soldiers.

 

"There are extremely high numbers of soldiers in Rangoon's streets," she added. "Anyone can see it is absolutely impossible for any demonstration to gather, or for anyone to do anything.

 

"People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over. We were informed from one of the largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned."

 

The diplomat also said that three monasteries were raided yesterday afternoon and are now totally abandoned.

 

At his border hideout last night, 42-year-old Mr Win said he hopes to cross into Thailand and seek asylum at the Norwegian Embassy.

 

The 42-year-old chief of military intelligence in Rangoon's northern region, added: "I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks.

 

"They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this."

 

With his teenage son, he made his escape from Rangoon, leaving behind his wife and two other sons.

 

He had no fears for their safety because his brother is a powerful general who, he believes, will defend the family.

 

Mr Win's defection will raise a faint hope among tens of thousands of Burmese who have fled to villages along the Thai border.

 

They will feel others in the army may follow him and turn on their ageing leaders, Senior General Than Shwe and his deputy, Vice Senior General Maung Aye.

Edited October 1, 2007 by Altivo

[Wreckwrx]

This is extremely disturbing to see.......

[Porker]

The ruling military government will get theirs very soon. Just watch out for it.

 

Look at what happened to the Taliban. Same thing.

 

And I say this not because they kill Buddhist but because they are doing the wrong things in the first place.

 

They can only hope that mercy be set upon them when it happens

[Altivo]

it' always the case when the gahment turn on their own citizens..

[Altivo]

to be honest, i dun think the junta will fall. At most, they will stay kuai kuai til the international radar is off them... then they will continue to persecute the alleged mastermind of the protestors...

[Nutty]

Anyone got a list of the most oppressed nation in the world?

 

I'm sure Myanmar is somewhere near North Korea.

 

 

Am curious how SG is ranked in that list.

[Altivo]

hahaha.. yeah.. will be interesting to see such a list...

 

let me try to find one from the web.