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The Day Burma was Silenced

posted September 28, 2007 - 1:55am
The Day Burma was Silenced

Burma’s generals silenced the Buddhist monks yesterday morning. For a week and a half, the monks had been on the streets of Rangoon in their tens of thousands, and their angry calm gave courage to the people around them.

This is the moment that Kenji Nagai, 50, who was covering the Rangoon protests for the Japanese news agency APF News, was shot. He died later in hospital.

Read more on this at URL http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2545351.ece

Author: masticool
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