The bloodshed continues: An update on the Ngwe Kyar Yan raid

By D. Triplow

BBC world claim that 200 monks were arrested last Wednesday. The true picture, it seems, is far worse.

One example is the Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery in the obscure neighborhood of Yangon, which was raided early Thursday morning. A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed their heads against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. They tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks and took the bodies of the deceased away.

The head monk of the monastery, was tied up, tortured, and bludgeoned in the middle of the monastery, he died later that day. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to assist their helpless monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every try to forge ahead was met with the bayonets.

When the military eventually left, only 10 out of 200 monks remained alive; those who were lucky enough to escape the military. All that was left in the monastery was the blood of the victims covering the building's walls and floors.

Source:
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