Marching Monks with Megaphones

Whenever you see thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns marching in public protest, shouting through megaphones, you know something big is going down. In Burma (or Myanmar, depending who you ask), the monks are growing militant in their opposition to the brutal military dictatorship that rules their land.They have joined the hundreds of thousands of people who having been staging protests in Rangoon for the last week. The last time this happened, back in 1988, the government responded by declaring martial law and massacring hundreds of people. I'm anxious to see what happens this time. The ruling junta was quiet about it until a few hours ago, when the minister for religious affairs brigadier general Thura Myint Maung warned Burma’s monks not to break Buddhist "rules and regulations."



Local citizen captures video of marching monks.



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