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    Burmese monks 'to be sent away'
    Monday, 1 October 2007, 17:08 GMT 18:08 UK

    Monks are absent, but people in Rangoon are going about their lives

    Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.

    About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.

    They are being held at a disused race course and a technical college.
    Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon.

    The monks have been disrobed and shackled, the sources told BBC radio's Burmese service. There are reports that the monks are refusing to eat.

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    In response to calls from Burma’s democracy movement, the Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups around the world have been pressuring companies to sever business ties with Burma.

    Please contact one or more of the companies on the Dirty List and ask them to cut their ties with Burma’s military government. If appropriate, tell them you will not purchase their products as long as they continue to support the regime in Burma.

    Letters written in your own words are most effective. If you don’t have much time, don’t worry - just one or two paragraphs will do. Please be polite!

    We would be grateful if you could send us a copy of any responses you receive.

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    Australians issued travel warning
    October 01, 2007 07:50am

    AUSTRALIANS are being advised against all travel to Burma, due to its civil unrest.

    The Department of Foreign Affairs issued the warning on its website, urging Australians not to travel to the politically-troubled region and to avoid demonstrations.

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    Monks missing as bustle returns
    Monday, 1 October 2007, 16:28 GMT 17:28 UK

    Reporters in Burma's main city of Rangoon have been describing the atmosphere there following the military's suppression of anti-government protests.

    MONDAY

    On Monday morning the city centre was almost back to normal, or as normal as things can be when there's a group of soldiers around every corner.

    Despite the military presence a sort of normality returns to Rangoon

    Most of the shops and temples are now open and people are trying to get on with their lives as best they can.

    But amid the noise and bustle of everyday life, there is one notable absence.

    This city is normally full of monks, going in and out of temples, shopping on the street stalls, and even stopping for a chat in the teashops.

    Windowless hall

    This morning though we hardly saw any.

    That is because for the last few days the military has been busy rounding them up.

    Thousands of monks have been arrested since the weekend and many of them are now locked up in the government technical college on the outskirts of the city - a windowless hall which has three military vehicles stationed outside.

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    Myanmar's abandoned children ending up in Thai border town

    by Charlie McDonald-Gibson Sun Sep 30, 6:22 PM ET

    MAE SOT, Thailand (AFP) - The rows of children transfixed by cartoons in a wooden shelter near the Thai-Myanmar border are probably too young to understand why they are all now wearing matching rust-red clothes.

    On the wall is a map of their homeland Myanmar, where the ruling junta this week cracked down on anti-government protests and killed at least three Buddhist monks, whose deep red robes the kids are unconsciously honouring.

    The four and five-year-olds are probably also too young to fully understand why their parents left their impoverished country, formerly known as Burma, or what forced their mothers and fathers to finally abandon them in Thailand.

    "A lot of Burmese people are working here," said Thant Zin Kyaw, deputy director of local assistance group Social Action for Women (SAW), which runs the safehouse for abandoned children.

    "They come here for different reasons. Some are facing serious crisis in Burma like forced labour, economic crisis, child labour."

    Resource-rich Myanmar was once one of the most economically promising countries in Southeast Asia, but 45 years of military rule have run infrastructure into the ground.

    Myanmar is now one of the world's poorest countries with per capita gross domestic product (GDP) well below that of nearby Cambodia, Laos and Bangladesh. UN figures show the junta spends just 0.5 percent of GDP on health.

    Seeking a better life for their families, many people from Myanmar illegally cross the porous border to Thailand, but once here they lack access to all social services, and are open to exploitation by employers.

    Migrant workers may give up their children because the parents are HIV positive or the child is disabled and they cannot afford to look after them.

    Some are not allowed to take the time off work to look after an infant, said Thant Zin Kyaw, as toddlers dressed by the staff in red ambled around a playhouse nearby.

    Four-year-old Su Su Aung, who has cerebral palsy, will soon be joining the 32 abandoned children who are living at SAW's safehouse, even though it is already over its capacity of 25.

    Currently he lies alone under a mosquito net on the floor of the Mae Tao Clinic, one of the few medical centres in Mae Sot where migrant workers and people coming across from Myanmar can get free health care.

    Su Su Aung's parents crossed the border a few months ago and came to the clinic. His mother was treated for malaria, but died when she returned home.

    His father soon brought Su Su Aung back and he became one of 10 abandoned children the clinic has treated since 2006. Staff say the man was probably unable to care for a disabled child alone.

    Just a few feet away from Su Su Aung lies another infant, now four months old. She was abandoned at the clinic by her migrant worker parents when she was just 13 days old.

    "People have no money to look after another child ... Most of the time, (the parents) wait for the staff to be busy, and they run away," said Eh Moolah, a senior medic in Mae Tao Clinic's reproductive health department.

    "They say 'I need to go to the toilet, take my baby', and then they run."
    The clinic's founder Cynthia Maung says the decision to abandon a baby is a final act of desperation that stems from a lack of access to services as basic as family planning advice.

    Humanitarian organisations estimate that there are up to two million illegal Myanmar migrants working all over Thailand.

    Although there are humanitarian organisations and clinics such as Mae Tao, which is funded by foreign donors, to help the migrant workers, many are unaware of their services, and fall through the cracks.

    Some first-time migrant mothers are so desperate to get help delivering their babies that they will commit a small crime to go to Thai prison, where they receive basic health care, Cynthia Maung tells AFP.

    Mae Tao Clinic also treats many migrant and Myanmar women who suffer side effects after illegal abortions, which many undergo because they simply cannot afford to feed another mouth.

    Economic ills and the soaring costs of living were key reasons for recent anti-junta rallies in Yangon, and people often risk an illegal border crossing because they are too poor to afford even the paltry health care on offer in Myanmar.

    It was poverty that forced San Thaw Dar, now 17, to come from Myanmar's Karen State to Thailand with her mother when she was 11 years old.

    She was immediately put to work as a domestic helper, but accidently smashed a doll belonging to her employers, who demanded 5,000 baht (142 dollars). Instead of paying the fee, her mother dropped San Thaw Dar off at the SAW safehouse and left.

    Surprisingly, San Thaw Dar does not feel any bitterness towards her mother, but thinks about her homeland, especially as she is not a legal Thai citizen.

    "I would like to go back to Myanmar, but it depends on the situation," she said, as the younger residents scrambled over her, as yet in happy ignorance of life as a stateless person.

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    As much as we deplore what is happening in Burma, there is nothing we can do.
    its about the $ not lives. Hopefully sneak and go tactics will come alive.
    Destroying what the generals feed on.

    Oil Pipelines.
    Electricity power grids.
    Train lines carring raw materials.
    Bridges.
    Army food and petrol supplies.
    Anything that feeds $s to the despots, needs to be destroyed or disrupted in any way.
    Sneak destroy and leave, As as much as the innocents will suffer and they will it can not be worse than what is happening to them now.
    The USA has the best spy cameras above the countries already in place these would be a big help, to steer insurgents where to attack.But thats another pipe dream too.
    And to those who disagree with the ends justify the means theory.
    Become burmese and try living in burma.

    Unfortunatly the above is only a pipe dream as it wont happen.
    So sit back read the horrors that are happening there and thank your maker you dont live there.
    And the death toll rises.

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    Oct 07, 09:23Breaking News: Soe Win come back from SG with 3 Male Nurses and 2 Doctors.....Professor. Dr. Leechopin said they are sorry for this patient and but they have been tried their best and also told to ask Help from God.. God Only can Save Himm

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    'Several thousand' may be dead
    Bodies dumped in jungle, says deserting officer
    October 01, 2007

    'The revolt is over,' says Swedish diplomat

    An unconfirmed report by the Daily Mail claims that several thousand people have died in Burma in recent days and that the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle.

    The claim is made by Hla Win, described as a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta.

    "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about," Hla Win said. "The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

    Hla Win, interviewed at the border with Thailand, said he decided to desert his post after refusing to obey an order to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks. "They were to be killed and their bodies dumped inside the jungle.

    I refused to participate."

    According to the Norway Post, Hla Win is seeking political asylum in Norway.

    Meanwhile, Liselotte Agerlid, a Swedish diplomat just returned from a visit to Burma, told journalists in Thailand: "The Burma revolt is over. People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over.

    We were informed... that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned."

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    SNAPSHOT-Latest developments in Myanmar
    Tue Oct 2, 2007 1:56am BST

    HEADLINES

    * Foreign Minister U Nyan Win, at U.N. General Assembly, accuses "political opportunists" of trying to create a showdown with foreign help and exploit the ensuing chaos, says "normalcy" has returned to his country.

    * U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari flies to jungle capital Naypyidaw for a meeting with senior general Than Shwe.

    * Australia says it has rejected Myanmar's nomination of an army general as envoy to Canberra in response to the military junta's crackdown.

    * Yangon streets quiet. Barbed-wire barricades removed from Shewdagon Pagoda.

    * Soldiers and government security men search bags and people for cameras. Internet remains cut.

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    Myanmar official media publish photos of 11 violent protestors
    2007-10-01

    YANGON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- A state-run Myanmar official newspaper published on Monday photos of 11 people described as violent protestors with weapons who were arrested during a demonstration in the country's biggest city of Yangon in the last week end.

    The protestors were holding such weapons as knife, iron rod, scissors, catapult, marble and nut in confronting the government security forces on Saturday on a main road near the Sule Pagoda road, the heart of the city, according to the New Light of Myanmar.

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    Missing monks in Myanmar 2:23

    Images of a brutal crackdown are getting past Myanmar censors. CNN's John Vause reports. Viewer discretion advised.

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    Japanese to study ‘stern measures’ against Yangon
    Published: Tuesday, 2 October, 2007, 02:13 AM Doha Time

    TOKYO: Japan said yesterday it would consider “stern measures” against Myanmar after troops shot dead a Japanese journalist covering anti-government protests.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mid
    Hla Win is seeking political asylum in Norway
    I hope that he isn't given polictical asylum and is tried at an international court like the rest them should be. He and his family have benefitted by treating people in-humanely and causing great misery to the people of Burma. They won't need evidence from him. The US spooks have been in Burma for years collecting information so they know exactly what has been going on. There's no excuse for a non response to this current tragerdy.

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    Burmese FM blames 'opportunists'
    Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 00:33 GMT 01:33 UK



    Nyan Win said security forces exercised restraint

    Burma's Foreign Minister Nyan Win has blamed "political opportunists" for trying to turn protests by a small group of activists into a showdown.

    Speaking to the UN General Assembly, he said "normalcy" had returned to Burma after days of pro-democracy protests.

    At least nine people were killed, and possibly many more, when security forces ended days of mass protests.

    UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari is due to meet Burma's military leader General Than Shwe, a UN official said.

    'Utmost restraint'

    The lethal reaction of Burma's government to days of protests in Rangoon and other cities has overshadowed the UN General Assembly in New York.

    In front of an international audience, Nyan Win gave his government's version of events.

    He said "neo-colonialism has reared its ugly head" by trying to spread disinformation about human rights abuses in Burma

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    Burmese community stage two-day hunger strike in Sydney
    October 2, 2007 - 9:55AM


    Worldwide demonstrators against junta ... People protest at the United Nations in New York.
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    Sydney-based Burmese democracy activists will start a two-day hunger strike today to campaign for an immediate deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to Burma.

    Hundreds of monks and pro-democracy protectors in Burma have been arrested by the ruling junta over the past few days, as it continues its military crackdown on the biggest anti-government demonstrations in 20 years.

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    China Rejects Attempt to Link Developments in Burma to Beijing Olympics
    By Glenn Kessler
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    Tuesday, October 2, 2007

    A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy said yesterday that his government is working hard to stem the violence in Burma and argued against efforts by activists to link participation in the Beijing-based 2008 Summer Olympics to China's handling of Burma.
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    Bloggers for Burma to Stage International Online Protest October 4th
    October 01, 2007

    The junta in Burma (aka Myanmar) may have blacked out public internet access in the country in an attempt to prevent information about the military's violent crackdown on protesting monks from getting out, but the move is proving to be too little too late.

    Now Free-Burma.org has announced an International Bloggers' Day for Burma on October 4th.

    Bloggers who wish to show their solidarity with the peaceful protest are being asked to refrain from posting that day and instead display one of the Free Burma banners or images (such as the one at right) that have been created for the online protest.

    A list of participating bloggers (currently more than 1,500) can be found here.

    The Free-Burma.org protest site for bloggers was launched by two German college students.

    They got the idea from a multi-lingual Wiki page that was set up last month as a forum to allow participants around the world to brainstorm ideas on how to show support for the protesters in Burma.

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    Rangoon Quiet But Raids on Monasteries Continue
    By Yeni

    October 01, 2007—Rangoon remained tense on Monday, with hundreds of heavily armed troops and riot police deployed on the streets and sealing off the leading monasteries.

    At least 1,500 Buddhist monks, nuns and other protesters have been arrested since taking to the streets in peaceful demonstrations two weeks ago, and thousands of other monks are being prevented by security forces from leaving their monasteries.

    Raids on Rangoon’s monasteries continue. Troops from naval vessels stormed monasteries bordering the Pazundaung River, in Tharkayta Township, Rangoon, in the early hours of Sunday.

    Local residents surrounded one monastery to protect the monks, and one person was reportedly killed when troops opened fire. Eyewitnesses said at least 100 monks were arrested and taken away.

    Video film shown on Sunday by the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma showed a monk, covered in bruises, floating face down in the river.
    "The greatest tragedy is that the armed forces are beating, torturing, shooting and killing the Buddhist monks, who marched peacefully and only chanted the “Metta Sutta”[the Buddha’s words on loving kindness],” a Rangoon-based senior journalist told The Irrawaddy.

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    Nothing Else to Give but Our Lives
    By Shah Paung

    October 01, 2007—“One of them stopped breathing while I was holding him in my arms. I was so sad that I just went home. The young men that were killed were all good people. Yet I am sure more people will have to die. Everyone is so depressed and all we can do is give up our lives.”

    This is the experience of a young man who took part in the demonstration in front of Ngwe Kyar Yan Monastery on September 27 after soldiers had conducted a midnight raid on the monastery and arrested more than 250 monks.

    The young man lost four of his friends during the demonstration.
    He says that he arrived at the demonstration at about noon and saw many other young men, aged about 20.

    “The demonstrators were shouting: ‘The military skills that were passed down by Bogyoke (Burmese independence leader Aung San) were not meant to kill people.’

    Riot police were standing in front of the soldiers and blocking the demonstrators’ way. The protesters threw stones at the riot police but they still blocked their path. The soldiers standing behind the riot police shot into the air to disperse the crowd,” he recounted.

    The young demonstrator said that the crowd retreated after those first shots, but gathered together again and marched toward the security forces.

    He confirmed that the riot police moved away, leaving space for the soldiers. A burst of gunfire suddenly rang out. There was panic as the crowd fled.

    Four young students who had been marching in the middle of the front row fell. They were dead. The demonstrators managed to carry three of the bodies away but the SPDC troops claimed the fourth body.

    “We are paying the ultimate price,” said the young man who tried to save his friend.

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    Poverty Forces More Burmese to Beg for Food
    By Violet Cho

    October 01, 2007—The Burmese military regime's restriction on the flow of food donations from UN agencies to vulnerable people in Sittwe and Mandalay will bring a host of more serious problems for the people in the area, says a Sittwe resident.

    In recent weeks, the regime's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters greatly hampered the World Food Program's distribution of food to 500,000 vulnerable people in different areas of Burma.

    Burmese authorities stopped all movement of food commodities out of Mandalay and the unrest has also slowed down food delivery efforts in Sittwe, 560 km west of Rangoon, the WFP said. The port city was one of the centers of protests, which began on August 19 following a hike in fuel prices.

    Recently, the Burmese authorities have allowed some emergency food distribution to flow out of Mandalay, but WFP still lacks access to Sittwe.
    WFP tries to serve the vulnerable people in the country, mainly young children, HIV/AIDS patients and tuberculosis sufferers.

    A Sittwe resident who requested anonymity told The Irrawaddy that most of the people in both cities do not have jobs with real income.

    “People can not even afford to buy rotten fish to cook for their meal,” he said.

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    The Junta Mobilizes its Mouthpieces
    By Aye Lae

    October 01, 2007—A junta-backed organization has been forcing thousands of people to attend rallies against the demonstrations led by monks, according to local residents.

    Last week, the Union Solidarity and Development Association organized rallies in Myitkyina in Kachin State, as well as in Kyaukpadaung, Taungtha and Myingyan townships in Mandalay Division. Local residents in other townships said that more rallies in their cities and townships are believed to have been organized for the days ahead, especially in Rangoon.

    A resident of Myitkyina said that on September 28, high school students in Myitkyina were taken in local authorities’ vehicles and forced to attend a gathering at a football park at 5:30 a.m. Teachers told the students that if they didn’t join the rally, they wouldn’t be allowed to take their final exam, the resident said. It is believed that teachers were forced to convey that message to their students.

    A woman who requested anonymity told The Irrawaddy by telephone that the rallies against the demonstrators are also intended to drum up support for the junta’s National Convention, which concluded at the end of August.
    A resident from Taungdwingyi said, “We have to go their rallies. If I don’t, I’ll get fined 10,000 kyat (US $7.1). However, if I do go, I was told I’d receive 3,000 kyat (US $2.1).”

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    Mae Sot Police Arrest Illegal Migrant Workers at Demonstration against Junta
    By Sai Silp

    October 01, 2007—Thai authorities arrested illegal migrant workers in Mae Sot District before a brief protest demonstration against the Burmese junta by migrant workers on Sunday.

    At the same time, the Bangkok police chief says he will not obstruct such demonstrations if they follow Thai law.

    Gov Chumporn Ponrak of Tak Province ordered local authorities in Mae Sot District's border with Myawaddy Township in Burma to restrict the movement of Burmese migrant workers in the area, over fears anti-junta protests may affect the bilateral relationship.

    “Provincial officials have contacted employers to tell Burmese worker to respect Thai law, and officials only allow peaceful gatherings such as praying in temples,” Chumporn told the INN News Web site.

    The concern followed a brief anti-junta protest on Sunday by about 200 migrant workers in Mae Sot, where there are more than 50,000 Burmese laborers currently working in several industries. Many migrants are legal workers, while others are without documents.

    A source told The Irrawaddy that almost all of the people at the demonstration were Burmese workers who wanted to express their concerns about the bloodshed in Burma.

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    Thousands missing in Myanmar: rights groups

    BANGKOK, Oct 1: With protests quashed and many monasteries empty, fears are growing for those who have disappeared into Myanmar’s grim prisons in recent days as rights groups say more than 1,000 are missing.

    Amid the pervasive climate of fear in military-ruled Myanmar — where troops patrol streets, news has been stifled, and Internet links cut — observers are struggling to assess just how many have been rounded up.

    Security forces have launched overnight raids to pick up more monks and members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, herself under house arrest for most of the past 18 years.

    Foreign diplomats believe at least several hundred Buddhist monks and political activists were taken away at the height of the bloody crackdown last week against the biggest pro-democracy protests in almost 20 years.

    The Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which has for years kept a close watch on political detainees in Myanmar’s 43 prisons, estimates that up to 1,500 people were locked up last week.

    “At least 85 protest leaders, over 1,000 monks, and between 300 and 400 students and activists were arrested,” said AAPP joint secretary Bo Kyi, adding that the detainees were subject to harsh prison conditions.

    The Buddhist monks, who were at the forefront of what has been dubbed the “saffron revolution,” were forcibly disrobed and “severely beaten, kicked and insulted” by soldiers and militias, the group said in a statement.

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    U.N. officials say envoy to meet with Myanmar leader, after days of stalling by junta
    2007-10-02

    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy was set to meet with Myanmar's military leader Tuesday in a bid to end the country's political crisis, as the junta's foreign minister defended a deadly crackdown on democracy advocates that provoked global revulsion.

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    Burmese general sacked 'for being too moderate'
    Tuesday October 02 2007

    The Burmese general responsible for the city of Rangoon has been sacked, suggesting that last week's popular uprising may have exposed divisions in the military.

    According to the Mizzima website, run by Burmese exiles, Major General Hla Htay Win was "allowed to retire,'' allegedly for being too moderate in crushing the protests.

    He had supervised lethal dawn raids on monasteries and arrested many hundreds of monks and protesters.

    His men fired automatic weapons into crowds of unarmed civilians, killing an unknown number of people.

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