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Headlines : InternationalMyanmar protests falter after crackdown
Daily protests began last month and had grown into the stiffest challenge to Myanmar’s ruling junta in decades. They were initially started by people protesting massive fuel price hikes, with crowd sizes mushrooming to tens of thousands after monks joined in.
The junta, which has a long history of snuffing out dissent, started cracking down Wednesday, when the first of at least 10 deaths was reported, and then let loose on Thursday, shooting into a crowd of protesters and clubbing them with batons.
U.N. envoy flies into Myanmar maelstrom
Hope wanes among protesters in Myanmar
[Posted By Unite]Republished from Yahoo! News
YANGON, Myanmar – The streets of Myanmar’s two biggest cities were eerily quiet on Saturday after a brutal crackdown on demonstrators seeking to end 45 years of military rule. Soldiers quickly snuffed out one small demonstration in Yangon, dragging several men to waiting trucks.
The U.N. dispatched one of its chief negotiators to the country to try to persuade the government to ease the crackdown but many demonstrators were losing hope, with soldiers and police seizing control of the streets and sealing Buddhist monastaries to prevent the saffon-robed monks who led the protests from resuming their marches.
Posted by Unite
"And this wind from below, that of rebellion and dignity, is not just an answer to the wind from above. It is not just an angry response. Rather, it carries with it not just a call for the destruction of an unjust and arbitrary system but a new proposal: the...
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Remember, AP is a corporate mouthpiece and its leading “sponsor” is Lockheed Martin. The idiots still have figured out what color saffron is. Or maybe they haven’t seen the pictures — that’s certainly possible. Or maybe they figure the meme can’t go out and be subject to controls if it doesn’t have a color and can’t hook up with a pre-installed meme.
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Two gatherings of a few hundred protesters each emerged at locations in Yangon on Saturday, but security forces quickly swooped with batons and beat them away.
PAUSE . . . that’s what that first sentence feels like without the “eerily quiet”
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Demonstrations led by monks are being tolerated elsewhere, including the religious capital of Mandalay, but supporters who attach themselves are being generally dispersed.
However in the central city of Pakokku, witnesses said monks led thousands of protesters in a peaceful two-hour march on Saturday that appeared to have been mounted with the approval of local authorities.
Dissidents said on Sunday they were looking for alternative venues to gather, away from the thousands of security forces massed in Yangon.
“We plan to go ahead with our movement,” a source involved in the protests said.
END OF QUOTE welcome to the fifth dimension. you are here. nonlocal and coming through load and clear.
Rumors have been circulating, we don’t know how on purpose, that Suu Kyi (pronounced Sue Chi) had been moved to Burma’s most seriously bad assed prison. But. The UN Special Envoy, sent by Ban Ki Moon, is in Burma to try and calm things down. We don’t know in who’s favor. Doha’s Burmese think in theirs, Lockheed Martin’s Burmese appear to have abandoned all hope. But we’ll see.
But anyway, “a Security Official” said that the envoy — a Nigerian by the name of Gambari — met with Suu Kyi for an hour and a half yesterday. Presumably not in the prison or that would have been mentioned. So the periphery has been perpetuating the bad assed prison rumor but we have not gotten robust confirmation out of Burma.
Nowhere does the Lockheed Martin Press Release mention that Gambari is Nigerian First Estate.
But Nigeria’s First and Second Estates* are fundamentally Neoliberal — to be nice about it — so we can’t be sure of the envoy’s allegiances, and since so far we haven’t heard of telecom bans being lifted, I think we can assume that all information reaching us is subject to severe interference patterns.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the next new new fuzzy logic.
Keep in mind that — in 88 — THOUSANDS of protesters were gunned down.
[*Traditionally, First Estate = Government (the King and the Church)), Second Estate = Business (the Aristocracy), and Third Estate = The People (Commoners)]