What is happening in Burma - always seems to be on the news ??

Answer 1

YANGON (Reuters) - Protesters returned to the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, undeterred by reports of security forces killing several monks as Myanmar's generals tried to end the biggest anti-military uprising in nearly 20 years.
People gathered around four monks standing on a traffic island in the middle of a four-lane highway leading to Sule Pagoda -- the end-point of mass demonstrations this week and now locked.
Ignoring increasingly desperate international calls for restraint, the generals sent troops into monasteries in Yangon and elsewhere and took several hundred monks away in trucks.
But fears grew of a repeat of 1988, when troops killed an estimated 3,000 people in the ruthless suppression of a nationwide uprising.
As security forces set up barbed-wire barricades at major junctions in central Yangon, monks on Burmese-language foreign radio stations urged their comrades not to surrender.
"We would like to call on the student monks to keep on struggling peacefully," one protest leader said on the BBC service. "Five monks have sacrificed their lives for our religion."
Barricades sealed off the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, the country's holiest shrine and start-point for more than a week of monk-led protests.
Troops and police also stationed seven fire engines to be used as water cannons near the Sule Pagoda. The gates of the downtown temple were locked, and armed police waited inside.

The monastery raids were likely to inflame the former Burma's 56 million people, already fed up with 45 years of unbroken military rule and economic hardship.
"Doors of the monasteries were broken, things were ransacked and taken away," a witness said. "It's like a living hell seeing the monasteries raided and the monks treated cruelly."
People living near Yangon monasteries, the revered moral centre of the Buddhist nation, reported that at least 500 monks were taken away in army trucks.
They were taken during the second night of a dusk-to-dawn curfew from monasteries believed to be coordinating protest marches, monks said.
Several monasteries in the remote northeast were also hit and monks carted off. "Only two or three sick monks were left behind," a person living hear the Ngwe Kyaryan monastery said.
Facing the most serious challenge to its authority since 1988, the junta admitted one man was killed and three wounded when soldiers fired warning shots and tear gas at crowds on Wednesday.
Protest leaders said at least five monks were killed as soldiers and riot police tried to disperse the biggest crowds in a month of marches against grinding poverty.
Overnight, police arrested two senior members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), the party's spokesman said. Two opposition politicians from other parties were also detained.

Answer 2

Monks, Nuns, are the general population are protesting against the military junta that runs the country. They want democracy. The military junta are cracking down on this by battoning, arresting and killing protestors.

Because they have no oil or celebrity interest up until now the UN is slower than a sloth on doing something to support them.

Answer 3

Ever wonder when the earth at the graveyards were moving.
Seem no one pay attention to the movement.
Until it was too late.
With all the creeps of the dead Mummies risen from the graveyards of failures and horrors of the past.
With living examples expose in Iraq.
Luke 9.60

Answer 4

Definitely it is news because it may bring about a change in the political scenario of the country. The change is much needed and just think about Aung Sung Su Ki. It is news definitely man.

Answer 5

MOnks and civilians protest to get government out.

Answer 6

england needs to take it back