These photographs from the Telegraph show a wounded Japanese photographer lying in the street in Rangoon amid the protests in Burma, attempting to take more pictures of the violence, while a soldier stands over him with a gun. In the next photograph, the soldier is gone, and the photographer, Kenji Nagai, is dead, having been shot at point blank range. Here, James Mawdsley recounts his terrifying year in a Burmese prison in 2000 after taking part in protests. For a glimpse into the repression, fear, and truly Orwellian censorship that is part of everyday life in totalitarian Burma, read...
Burma
Tiananmen Revisited
On the 10th day of protests against Burma’s military government, police fired into the crowd of monks and other peaceful demonstrators, killing nine. Last night, monasteries were raided, and monks were beaten and arrested. Click here for reports from Rangoon residents, published on the BBC website. There are many deaths on the streets of Rangoon. There were many deaths by gun-shots but the military is taking away the bodies so that they can hide their inhumane violence on civilians. Now even spectators on the streets, who are not involved in the protests are being shot at. Wai, Rangoon The...
Burmese Days
The Burmese government has begun threatening violence against the tens of thousands of protesters who are marching in the streets of Rangoon and other cities. The above photograph from Asia Pacific shows the pacifist army of monks who are leading the protests against the junta. Some 3,000 were killed in similar protests in Burma in 1988. A year later, the Chinese government massacred student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
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