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On the Ground in Yangon Myanmar Video |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Protesting Monks On the Ground in Yangon Myanmar is a video (3min 47sec) that takes you right inside the huge strikes, agitations, and demonstrations as the military begins a crack-down on 500,000 Buddhist monks who spearheaded the the movement.
"For days they've led a country, the monks of Myanmar take to the streets determined to challenge the military dictatorship. They raised Buddhist flags as they marched through Yangon and Mandalay chanting religious mantras and calling for peace and democracy.
"Those calls have been answered by armed troops and police who blocked their way preventing demonstrators from reaching the holy shrines in Yangon symbols of past resistance to this oppression..."
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