(Time : 10.31am) Tayza owned Htoo company shut-downSenior General Than Shwe's right hand man business tycoon Tayza ownedHtoo trading company shut-down its operations since yesterday after giving two months salaries to its staff."After giving us two month's salary, staff were asked not to come back were told to contact the company in November.
Now, a split within Myanmar's ruling junta is seen to be emerging. Several ministers such as Aung Thaung, MaungThaung, Kyaw Hsan, Maung Oo and Thein Zaw are on Gen. Than Shwe side.Generals split between those who want to follow General Than Shwe and those who want to follow Gen. Maung Aye. According to a brigadier general, Gen. Maung Aye gave command to the military force to shoot the people protesting. But Gen. ThanShwe followers do not agree with that command. That BG also suggests the protesters should not shout slogans against the entire military force. People are peacefully protesting in Mandalay and no report of shooting as well. Detained inside monasteries in Mandalay Security forces continue to guard all the monasteries in Mandalay and impose restrictions on movement of monks, effectively barring monks from protesting." The forces have cordoned off several monasteries including Ma SoeYein and Mya Taung with barbed wires so that the monks cannot come out of the monasteries to protest. And fully armed soldiers guard the monasteries. Because of the blockade monks are heard shouting from inside.".Novices and young monks have been ordered to go back to their native places by police officials. Mandalay prisons director with two vehicles from the transport corporation department took several prisoners to a field in the foot of the Mandalay hill and asked a barber to shave off their heads.The eyewitness added that the authorities are forcing the prisoners to act as monks to create confusion and misunderstanding among the monks as well as the public so that they lose faith in the Buddhist clergy.
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