Soldiers in downtown Rangoon are shooting directly into crowds killing many peacefull protestors. (photo, Ko Htike)

 

 

 

27 September: Soldiers this morning raided Buddhist Monasteries, beating up Monks, arresting them, searching the Monasteries, and leaving everything broken and upside down.

Eye-witnesses said they heard Monks creaming in pain and shouting for help and bleeding Monks forcibly taken away by soldiers. When devotees try to help the Monks, soldiers threatened them that they would be shot dead on the spot.

Blood stains in Monasteries.

 

Monasteries left upside down.

(photos, Niknayman)

27 September: Despite regime's brutal crack down, thousands of people today marched on central Rangoon, near Sule Pagoda. Soldiers fired into the crowd, and when the crowd recede, soldiers tried to arrest as many protestors as they can chase after and catch. Then fire-engines came and wash away bloodstains on the road.

protestors in central Rangoon before being shot at by soldiers

riot plice patrolling streets

truck loads of soldiers

Some reports say that Monks from a Kyimyindaing Monastery are marching in the streets carrying the dead body of a fellow Monk.

There demonstrations and brutal crack downs going on in other cities, like Mandalay, Tavoy, etc.

(photo Ko Htike & Zaw Sai)

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