Found an interesting article that discusses some tactics and longer term strategies that can be employed by the peoples of Burma as well as the international community.  It opens by saying:

 

"An epic struggle is underway. The people of Burma and their supporters from the people of the world are pitted against the SPDC, the political leaders of the international community, and business interests. The first round, the last forty-five years, including the crisis period from 1988 to 1990, went to the SPDC (and its predecessors SLORC and BSPP). The second round, the beginning of the current crisis, with the courageous leadership of the 88 Generation Students and Burma’s monastic community, went to the people. However, this stage was not decisive. The SPDC was able to regain the initiative. This occurred largely because other nations, in deference to the status quo of the international political system, which now exists exclusively to serve the interests of “development” and multinational corporations, refused to help.

 

The current situation is that Than Shwe has been emboldened by the fact that there was no international response to his crimes. (I mean a real response: action, not just impotent complaints.) He now realizes: “I can do anything. I can arrest and kill monks; commit ethnic cleansing and even genocide against Burma’s ethnic nationalities; emplace North Korean ballistic missiles and target them at Thailand; and buy Russian and North Korean technology to make atomic bombs. Nothing and no one will stop me.

 

He has therefore increased his repression, and launched both a program of nighttime arrests – people in Burma are now “being disappeared,” and the beginnings of a new forced labor gulag system. He also covered up the initial crimes from the crackdown, by cremating bodies, again at night, and clearing out ransacked monasteries.

 

Some commentators are saying that the uprising is over. This is ludicrous. They want it to be over. It is not over until Burma is free."

 

Entire article here.  

Ko Kyauk Khe was arrested on 30 September for shouting “Long live the Buddhist religion” after watching footage of the government’s violent crackdown on protestors. He was forced to defend himself in court because all the local defence lawyers were persuaded not to take the case. During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Ko Kyauk Khe had also shouted “Down with Than Shwe” and other anti-government chants, and accused him of supporting the monk-led protests in the township. In his defence, Ko Kyauk Khe said that he shouted in support of Buddhism, because he felt that the government’s actions were undermining the religion. He further claimed that the peaceful demonstrators had been acting within the law and so he could not have committed a crime by supporting them. Aung Lan township judge U Myint Swe and township legal officer U Aye Shwe found that Ko Kyauk Khe had violated section 505 (b) of the Burmese penal code, which deals with causing public alarm or incitement to commit an offence against the state or public tranquility. He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, the maximum term for this offence.

According to the Irawaddy, it sounds like the military has a new enemy - STRAY DOGS!  Who should be more insulted, the generals or the pooches?  From the article:

 

"The Burmese authorities have a new enemy to hunt down—dogs which are roaming Rangoon with pictures of Than Shwe and other regime leaders around their necks.

New video footage of the past protests that just came in on 10/10 showing soldiers beating, kicking protestors and monks.  Also it is reported that the number of monks on the street has greatly diminished.  Where are they?  The spirit of the resistance still lives however. (Small subset of recently added extended report)

 

Since the crackdown, there have been reports circulating within the International Burmese community of continuing acts of resistance.  One tactic detailed in a truthout.org article:

 

"Meanwhile, citizen journalists, possibly emboldened by other signs of resistance as well as daily rumors of cracks in the ranks among soldiers, have reportedly begun submitting lists of names of military commanders, soldiers and informers to the Democratic Voice of Burma. The lists, said to be provided by witnesses to the repression, include names of who has done the shooting, who is doing the arrests and who is passing information about protests on to the junta leadership. Movement leaders say they hope this direct accountability (and lack of anonymity) for those carrying out orders against the people of Burma will have the effect of making the generals and their security forces "understand how hated [this regime is] by the people, and will [cause them to] hesitate to commit more cruel torture and oppression." This kind of tactic, which falls into the category of nonviolent intervention, can have the effect of upsetting the normal flow of life by confounding or frustrating its targets."

 

The full article found here.  

Background: Several days ago Ko Htike's Blog posted pictures of the truck murders and later retracted them indicating that the pictures were from an earlier time.  BurmaSpot followed suit and removed them at that time.  However, Burma Digest has recently posted them, this time with more detail so we are putting them back up.

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There have been rumors coming out of Burma that the regime has been killing activists in gruesome ways - by making them  lie down in the road and then running them over with trucks.   The Burma Digest article describes this (English intro followed by article in Burmese).

  

"A Burmese language newspaper published by Burmese exile pro-democracy activists in Japan reported about the most gruesome murders military regime has been committing on detained activists in Burma; it was said that detainded activists were literally crushed to death under a 10-wheel truck."

 

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