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From the Guardian.
Amnesty International yesterday said the junta was still receiving military equipment from China, Russia, Ukraine, and India.
The Burmese generals claim to have released all but 500 of the Buddhist monks and other demonstrators detained since last month’s pro-democracy protests. But the senior British diplomat, briefing journalists yesterday on condition of anonymity, gave [...]

Again from Avaaz:
(and thanks thanks thanks to them again for keeping us connected and informed)
Burma’s streets are quiet–no mass demonstrations, no riot police. But the calm is an illusion. Change is coming to Burma, and we are all a part of it.
Here’s where we stand: The regime has massacred, tortured, and intimidated its critics at [...]

More news from Burma. Please wear red on Saturday Oct 6 and tell people why.
Just last Sunday – as marches led by Buddhist monks drew thousands in the country’s biggest cities – Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora was in Burma’s capital Rangoon for the signing of contracts between state-controlled ONGC Videsh Ltd and Burma’s [...]

An eyewitness from inside Burma reports that injured protesters are being taken to the Yay Way cemetery outside of Rangoon, and burned alive in an effort to destroy the evidence of the genocide occurring.
This shocking report comes only hours after news that dozens of high school students were shot and beaten to death.
Regardless, the junta [...]

Another column of thousands of people are coming to their way to reinforce the peaceful demonstrators who are in confrontation with armed military troops.
A respectful old monk is in the vanguard of the column singing national anthem and holding flags of fighting peacock.
Despite peaceful demonstrators having been beaten to break up the crowd, the demonstrators [...]

Have you been following the swelling peaceful protests in Burma, the monks with their world trembling calls for Dialogue? The way they first asked the people not to join them out of a concern for safety and then, when the movement had grown and the monks were filling the streets and the people couldn’t be [...]