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[morganmuffle]

Of all the news stories at the moment I'm finding myself completely caught up in the protests in Burma.Every time I listen to the news or click on the BBC website I can feel my stomach clench as I wait for this time to be the time that we hear the Junta have decide to crack down on the protesters. I hope and pray that they won't but it seems always

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[catilinarian]

I know what you mean - I keep holding my breath, too. Why haven't the troops broken up the protests yet? Have they left it too late? Is there enough international attention now to make it dangerous? I remember reading accusations that the security services were trying to infiltrate the protest, then set off a riot - are they waiting for that to work?

While part of me knows there have been large-scale protests in Burma crushed brutally before, something in my gut keeps saying, "100,000 people, all this coverage - how can it NOT change things?"

It's interesting, there was a comment on a Guardian article online purporting to be from a colonel in the Burmese army. He blamed the entire thing on insidious Western agitators (without answering the question of how "Western agitators" managed to get to 100,000 monks in a country that doesn't allow foreign media), but the interesting thing was, he used the name "Burma", too. :)

[ruth_b123]

I remember someone I used to know berating Amnesty for using Burma in their campaign materials, because "that wasn't the name of the country". He was told that Aung San Suu Kyi had asked them to use Burma in their material.