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Rosalind Russell, "Only Now, the Full Horror of Burmese Junta's Repression of Monks Emerges," The Independent UK (11 October 2007)

Monks confined in a room with their own excrement for days, people beaten just for being bystanders at a demonstration, a young woman too traumatised to speak, and screams in the night as Rangoon's residents hear their neighbours being taken away. Harrowing accounts smuggled out of Burma reveal how a systematic campaign of physical punishment and psychological terror is being waged by the Burmese security forces as they take revenge on those suspected of involvement in last month's pro-democracy uprising. The first-hand accounts describe a campaign hidden from view, but even more sinister and terrifying than the open crackdown »

Michael Casey, “Groups Struggle to Tally Myanmar's Dead,” Associated Press (1 October 2007).

Bangkok, Thailand - One hundred shot dead outside a Myanmar school. Activists burned alive at government crematoriums. Buddhist monks floating face down in rivers. After last week's brutal crackdown by the military, horror stories are filling Myanmar blogs and dissident sites. But the tight security of the repressive regime makes it impossible to verify just how many people are dead, detained or missing. "There are huge difficulties. It's a closed police state," said David Mathieson, a consultant with Human Rights Watch in Thailand. "Many of the witnesses have been arrested and are being held in areas we don't have access »

Larry Jagan, "Cracks Emerge in Myanmar Military Unity," Asia Times (October 2, 2007)

Cracks Emerge in Myanmar Military Unity By Larry Jagan Asia Times Tuesday 02 October 2007 Bangkok - Myanmar's protests have lost steam as security forces clamp down, killing over a dozen and arresting as many as 1,000 people involved in the recent street protests that have grabbed global headlines. Now there are indications that the ruling State Peace and Development Council's (SPDC's) top two generals are at loggerheads over how to proceed in the aftermath of the crackdown. SPDC second-in-command General Maung Aye reportedly opposed using force against the tens of thousands of monks who took to the streets, »

Seth Mydans, "Envoy Meets Myanmar Junta Leader," New York Times (Octobert 2, 2007)

Envoy Meets Myanmar Junta Leader By Seth Mydans The New York Times Tuesday 02 October 2007 Bangkok - A United Nations envoy met with the leader of Myamar's junta today, according to a diplomat in Yangon, as authorities continued a crackdown after crushing huge peaceful demonstrations last week. Myanmar's ruling junta re-opened the Shwedagon Pagoda in the country's main city, Yangon, allowing the public to worship. The leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, had kept the envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, waiting since his arrival in Myanmar on Saturday, although the envoy was allowed to visit Sunday with the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung »

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