A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one’s head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks (like rice bags) and took the bodies away.
The head monk of the monastery, was tied up in the middle of the monastery, tortured , bludgeoned, and later died the same day, today. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to help their helpless monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every try to forge ahead was met with the bayonets.
When all is done, only 10 out of 200 remained alive, hiding in the monastery. Blood stained everywhere on the walls and floors of the monastery.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The massacre of monks
Via Eli of Multi Medium, peaceable peaceful non-violent monks in Myanmar (Burma) were killed in their monastery:
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There are no words, Morse.
Appropriately enough, Fallenmonk, who chose his nom de blog long before this atrocity, is following matters closely, day to day.
I'm speechless. For a long time, I was a member of Amnesty International, and wrote letters to many heads of state (almost certainly including Burma's, on behalf of Aung San Suu Kee), but I do not believe I've ever seen such mindless brutal cruelty as that perpetrated against the monks. I do not know what to say... except that Gandhi reminded us that nonviolent resistance works only against powers that care whether they are shamed before the world, and these clearly don't.
I mean, how cruel does it have to be for George W. Bush to take notice? Oh, right... there's oil in Burma...
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