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Shooting Monks In Burma

thefadd.

Posted to Politics on Fri Sep 28, 2007 at 02:19:44 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

When Burmese authorities cracked down on a protest movement in 1988 and killed 3,000 people, it took mainly after the fact reports for the world to understand what had already happened. As monks and civilians have protested together in the most recent upheaval, technology has allowed the world to watch nearly first hand from the beginning.

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