According to the Human Rights website, there were many more people that were killed in the violent crackdown than the Burmese government has admitted and the foreign media firstly predicated. Since the military crackdown had started, the military regime had hunted down any force that opposed there regime from protestors to monks. The report that is entitled “Crackdown: repression of the 2007 popular protest in Burma” is a 140 page report that interviews over 100 eye witnesses in Burma and Thailand. This report by many media critics has been cited as the most accurate account for what occurred in the events of August and September. According to the human rights report and in accordance to the 140 page report on the issues, it states that the security forces shit into the crowds using live ammunition and rubber bullets. After this the police continued by beating the demonstrators intensely, and then followed by detaining arresting the protestors.
In my opinion this demonstrates the cruelty and ill treatment that the Burmese protestors had received by their government. This peaceful form of protest which was undertaken by the Burmese people never should have been interrupted by the military regime. This instead has reinforced the notion for the outside world that the Burmese government is snatching power from the people by not allowing them to take part in a peaceful protest.
(posted for 12/7/2007)
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/12/05/burma17481.htm
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