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Islander Expat Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-31-07 05:36 PM
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Burmese monks begin fresh protests!!
RIGHT ON!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2202239,00.html

More than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in Burma today in the first public demonstration since the military junta crushed last month's anti-government protests, several monks said.

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Up to 100,000 people joined last month's protests which were brought to a brutal end when troops fired on protestors on September 27 and 28. At least 20 people were killed by the government's own count, including a Japanese photographer.

Opposition groups claimed as many as 200 people may have been killed in the crackdown, which drew international condemnation and new sanctions against the regime.

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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-31-07 05:47 PM
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1. Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone it is healed. (n/t)
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-31-07 06:43 PM
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2. When will we ever learn? nt
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-31-07 06:44 PM
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3. Biden has introduced a bill for sanctions against Burma - don't know if it
will help but at least somebody's doing SOMETHING. Here's a link to the thread I posted earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3668644
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Archon Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 07:45 PM
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4. burma
How and why are we supposed to care about some third world despotism? Burma has no oil or other resources so there is no logical base for we should care at all about what goes on there.
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IndyDurham Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 11:11 AM
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5. sanctions
High time.
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