From: Charles Copeland
SUBJECT: 200 MONKS MURDERED IN BURMA
I just received this by email, checked it out and found it posted on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship website. Truly horrifying!
Sept 28, 07:
Update 9/28/07:
A dispatch received from someone with a relative in Yangon (Rangoon), via Richard Reoch of Shambhala:
We just got phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a few hours ago. We saw on BBC world, saying that 200 monks were arrested. The true picture is far worse. For one instance, the monastery at an obscure neighborhood of Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon) had been raided early this morning.
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.
Please tell your audience of the full extent of the fate of the monks please please !!!!!!!!!!!!
'Arrested' is not enough expression. They have been bludgeoned to death !!!!!!
The site's info continues with suggestions of "How You Can Support the People of Burma"
Please, everyone, do what you can!
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Avaaz.org & MoveOn.org
After decades of brutal dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising. In the past few days, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters, led by Buddhist monks, have flooded the streets of Rangoon. But yesterday, the military started shooting monks and journalists.
This is a true emergency. Avaaz.org and MoveOn.org have launched a petition demanding Burmese generals negotiate rather than crush the demonstrators. They're focused on getting United Nations Security Council members--particularly China's Hu Jintao--to intervene. Thousands of people from all over the world are adding their names every hour -- will you sign? Click here:
http://pol.moveon.org/burma/?r_by=-8620969-JJYlnx&rc=paste
Pass it on! Thanks!!
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
Thanks to 
Rich
What does the Bush administration really think about the military junta in Myanmar? Publicly, it condemns the government's actions but privately I suspect our handlers are moving us closer toward a military junta of our own. In Myanmar the internet is strictly monitored going as far as taking screen captures of computers inside internet cafes every five minutes, the rulers live lavishly while the poor is largely ignored and a substantial portion of their income is devoted to a massive standing army. The parallels are frightening.
If this administration was serious about promoting Burmese democracy they wouldn't sanction the brutal regime. We've learned from Iraq that sanctions effect the people, not the government. We need to fund the pro-democracy resistance by providing proxy servers to help organize the counter-movement and by smuggling aid into the country.
Here's the rest
With love and rockets,
Rich
It's Bad Kitty writing again. I'm glad I was able to share the information with anyone reading this. This is horrific. Please, sign the petition. It is the very least you can do. Pass it on, if you would. Use your freedom to voice your distaste for the horror and oppression of the Burmese people.
I'm off to look for some catnip because this is just some bad mojo....
Peace, y'all.
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