버마: 국가 테러 #2

Burma, 9.27: The Second Day of Crackdown/STATE TERROR

"Myanmar's (Burma) security forces fired automatic weapons into crowds of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon (Rangoon)", CNN reported today afternoon.

After military and police forces raided in the ealy morning hours several Buddhist monasteries the majority of the protesters today were mainly "ordinary" people. According to witnesses the monks were blocked by armed forces inside the monasteries and temples.

During the day, particularly in the early afternoon, according to sources inside Burma/Rangoon, large military units opened fire on demonstrators and killed at least ten of them (incl. a Japanese photo journalist).

Several hundred of students were arrested.
Since the early evening Rangoon is "looking like a ghost town"
But, according to political underground sources in Rangoon - despite the state terror - the people will continue the struggle (tomorrow the protests will be held from 8 a.m. until the afternoon)..

For more please read:

☞ Burma Protests: The Situation on September 27 (The Irrawaddy)

☞ Soldiers Open Fire on Protesters (Der Spiegel)

☞ 'Several killed' as Burmese forces shoot.. (Guardian)

☞ Junta raids monasteries and fires on crowd (IHT)

☞ Burma: Military Crackdown("photo gallery" by Der Spiegel)

Related stuff by NYT, Guardian, Asia Times:

☞ ..Junta Has Few Options Other Than Force

☞ Interactive: Burma protests

☞ Monks in the vanguard for regime change

☞ The man behind the Myanmar madness

☞ Economics at the root of Myanmar protests