{"id":113,"date":"2007-10-30T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-10-30T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T16:03:43","slug":"whats-going-on-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/whats-going-on-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on in Burma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A selection from <a href=\"http:\/\/burmanews.cbox.ws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burmanews<\/a>&#8216; postings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posted 21 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reports say that Junta is arresting students and civilians, who were believed to be involved in International Campaigns against SPDC, on arrival at the Yangon Airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Posted 25 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/irrawaddy.org\/protests\/video\/ngwekyaryan.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/irrawaddy.org\/protests\/video\/ngwekyaryan.php<\/a> &#8211; Video of Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery after troops raided on Sept 27, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Led by comedian Zarganar, who was recently released from prison, a group of Burmese artistes offered alms (food) to 80 monks and 30 nuns at Bar-Ga-Ya monastery. This monastery has been refusing all form of alms from the military junta. Zargarnar and his group of friends will continue to offer alms to all monasteries which refuse to accept anything from the military junta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(note that the junta forbade people to offer alms to the monks!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On 23rd Oct, more than 200 people carried out a peaceful protest in Kyar Inn Township of Karen State. They peacefully asked for the release of political prisoners, democracy for Burma and supported the 3-way discussion between DASSK, junta and UN. No action has been taken against them yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Posted 28 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On 26th Oct, there were around 1000 people at Shwe Dagon Pagoda to celebrate the full moon festival. Though there were a lot of soldiers and police, people did not seem to be afraid of them. It seemed that burmese people are ready for another wave of events towards freedom for Burma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Posted 30 October<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The words, \u201cKiller Than Shwe\u201d, was written on the Pagoda Road near to a police station with white paints in ZeeGone Township (which is on Yangon-Pyay Highway), Bago Division. Papers with the words, \u201cKiller Than Shwe\u201d, was also found. Later, police took photo and destroyed the words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please take a second to Stumble this post and make sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/burmanews.cbox.ws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burmanews<\/a> and Stumble + <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bookmark<\/a> it. Keep the attention on this, if we don&#8217;t&#8230; the Burmese people will have suffered in vain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection from Burmanews&#8216; postings. Posted 21 October Reports say that Junta is arresting students and civilians, who were believed to be involved in International Campaigns against SPDC, on arrival at the Yangon Airport. Posted 25 October http:\/\/irrawaddy.org\/protests\/video\/ngwekyaryan.php &#8211; Video of Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery after troops raided on Sept 27, 2007 Led by comedian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,33,36,23],"tags":[1019,75,128,129,172],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-news","category-politics","category-society","category-world","tag-activism","tag-burma","tag-free-burma","tag-freeburma","tag-myanmar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}