Thursday, September 27, 2007

Latest from IUSY Member Organisation ABSL on Violence in Burma


Today IUSY received the latest information from our comrades of the All Burma Students League (ABSL) :

1. Last night, army, riot police and their handpicked thugs USDA ( union solidarity and development association) raided most of the monasteries in Rangoon. Several hundreds monks had been arrested. Authorities issued a decree which restricts monks to not go out from their monasteries between 9 pm to 5 am for the next two months.

2. The worst monastery is Nge-Kyar-yan located in South Okklapa 6/7 kilometer north of Rangoon, which is home for 400/500 monks. Nobody knows what happened last night there, but people found empty houses in the morning with a pond of blood and broken statute of lord Buddha.

3. Now people dare to take step forward as they are cannot bear to see that monks have either been beaten or killed. Since 10/11 am until now there has shooting in several places in Rangoon.

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