Thursday 18 October 2007

Head monk held in exchange for brother

(from DVB)

The abbot of Thitsar Mandai monastery in Gontalabaung village was arrested on 2 October and is to be held until his brother, a monk wanted for involvement in last month's protests, is detained.
According to locals from the village in Mingaladon township, Rangoon, the monastery was raided by government troops from Rangoon military headquarters but only the head monk was taken into custody.

When villagers went to the military headquarters to find out about the monk, officials told them that his younger brother, also a monk, was wanted for involvement in last month's protests.
The officials said the abbot would not be released until they have detained his brother. Arrests have continued in Rangoon and elsewhere in Burma despite the government's claim that the situation has returned to normal.

State-run newspaper the New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday that 2,927 people have been arrested in total in the crackdown on demonstrators, 2,284 from Rangoon and 643 from other states and divisions.

This is significantly short of the 6,000 arrests claimed by some opposition groups.
The report stated that nearly 2,500 of those detained have been released "on pledge"as of yesterday, leaving fewer than 500 in detention. Details of the pledge were not given, but other sources have said that detainees were made to sign a form agreeing never to take part in demonstrations again.

4 comments:

Kira said...

This night at 22:40, there is a special evening about the revolution in Burma, on ARTE (european culture channel, in french and in german). See here:

www.arte.tv

Hope it will help to get Burma to the top themes here in Europe...

Headed to Rissah said...

What a bunch of spineless, shameless, heartless monsters.

Stella said...

In support of the wonderful people of Burma and their long hard struggle for democracy and freedom. This time all the world can clearly see - and we are watching the barbaric ruling regime in disbelief. We are desperately worried about the brave people and monks who are being held and tortured for their peaceful protests. We are imagining every moment of their torture and wishing we could stop it now, and give them the freedom they so richly deserve. We hope they will have the strength to continue the struggle which must be successful one day soon. Surely the cruel inhuman regime there must soon allow whatever humanity and world-awareness it has to see daylight. Surely it must recognise the strength it can gain in the world, and in Burma, by allowing its people justice and freedom - and democracy. I wish I could help more than by just giving money to the campaign. I am not young any more, and it has been many years since I have demonstrated publicly against a profound wrong, but I will certainly attend any UK public demonstration or rally in support of the Burmese people. God bless you all.

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