Report: Thousands Dead, Monks Dumped In The Jungle
Daily Mail Oct 1
"Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand."
That correlates with this today from the BBC:
Shooting gives way to a dirty war
"Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.
About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests."
"Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand."
That correlates with this today from the BBC:
Shooting gives way to a dirty war
"Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.
About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests."
posted by nolocontendere at 9:26 PM
3 Comments:
I don't want to sound cold and careless, but I'd advise that this apparent "defector" be seriously scrutinized and his story checked out before jumping any guns.
For all we know, he could be working for the CIA hoping to provide a pretext for a further push of the US imperial forces into the borderlands of China.
Just sayin. There's a huge difference between 100 and 1,000, especially where the MSM status quo is concerned. How long before that 1,000 becomes 10,000?
I don't doubt this is a human rights violation, the question is, how much worse is it than all the shit the U.S. imperial forces are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? No doubt, the MSM won't bother to make a comparison.
Paul C. Roberts says it much better than I:
The NPR announcers also supported the Burmese people, but they, too, show little disturbance over Bush’s five-year old wars that we now know were based entirely on lies. Al Qaeda is not the Taliban, and Iraq had no WMD. Neither country was a threat to the US. Now that we know this, why does the media still give Bush and Brown a free pass to use violence against Iraqis and Afghans?
To cut to the chase, what is the difference between Bush and Brown on one hand and the murderous Burmese government on the other? Bush and Brown are actually worse...
More: http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/143021
No, it's always possible that we're being primed for more fascist adventurism ala the Yugoslavian, humanitarian variety. The execrable media always can be faulted for it's selective outrage. I read that excellent Roberts piece and that guy is always spot on.
That being said, two things make me squinty eyed at the Burmese junta. With the media crackdown it appears that we're seeing a true phenomenon - citizen journos are taking up the slack in an information void. One of the first times the scumbag MSM is solely relying on bloggers and cell phone cameras.
Also, there's this tidbit that the despicable propaganda outlets won't tell anybody - Myanmar's military ties with Israel are long-standing.
And absolutely there won't be a comparison between the monks protesting their police state and Iraqis fighting their occupation. In any event it looks like all opposition was crushed and nothing will change.
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