Military Junta hunting down anti-government protesters

Burmese troops today began hunting down anti-government protesters in house-to-house searches across Rangoon. Military vehicles patrolled the streets before dawn with loudspeakers announcing: “We have photographs. We are going to make arrests.”People are terrified. From what we understand, military police are travelling around the city in the middle of the night, going into homes and picking up people. Residents living near the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma’s most revered shrine and a flashpoint of unrest, said police swept through several dozen homes in the middle of the night, dragging away men for questioning. The troops were looking for people who took part in mass pro-democracy demonstrations which were ruthlessly crushed last week with gunfire, tear gas and baton charges.