Taking advantage of the shift of world attention to the diplomatic stage, Burmese authorities are continuing their nightly raids on homes and monasteries, searching for anybody associated with the demonstrations that rocked the country, writes Edward Loxton from Chiang Mai, in neighbouring Thailand.
A resident of Rangoon’s Yaydashay Road told a Radio Free Asia correspondent by phone that he had seen his neighbours, including children, bundled into army trucks in the dead of night and driven away. “They [the security forces] left only old people in the [apartment] house,” he said. “Those who were asked to leave were asked to bring three sets of clothing. They were all put into trucks and taken away with their heads bowed and their hands on their heads.”
One contact in Rangoon told me over a clandestine phone link: “It’s a reign of terror. The streets are deathly quiet by day, but you can feel the tension. People dread nightfall and what it will bring. My children are terrified of going to bed.”
Mizzima, a news service run by Burmese exiles in New Delhi, has reported that bodies of badly-beaten and tortured monks have been surfacing in the Rangoon River, which runs past several of the city’s monasteries.
(article: http://www.newsdeskspecial.co.uk/burma/index.html)
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