Monks Protest in Rangoon

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 >Subject: Monks Protest in Rangoon
 >Date: 22 Mar 1997 15:57:50 GMT
 >From: irrc@xxxxxxx (IRRC)
 >
 >     RANGOON, Burma (Reuter) - A group of about 50 Buddhist monks
 >desecrated a Muslim mosque in the northeastern quarter of the Burmese
 >capital Saturday, eyewitnesses told Reuters. 

 >   The monks threw stones and used sticks to hit scaffolding and windows
 >of the mosque, which was under renovation, they said. 

 >   Police dispersed the monks after the incident, which lasted several
 >minutes. The unrest was the first of its kind in Rangoon, and came soon
 >after Buddhist-Muslim strife broke out in Burma's second city Mandalay,
 >where a curfew has been in force since last weekend.
 >About fifty monks arrived in cars at the mosque in Kanbe, where they
 >struck the mosque with sticks and stones,'' one eyewitness said. 

 Hey -- that's sounds like _SLORC's manufactured monks_. If they can make 
 SLORC soldiers dresse like DKBA and creates mob that attack Aung San Suu Kyi's 
 motorcade, they can come up with this feindish scheme to have fake monks 
 create unrest so that  they can use it as a excuse to further tighten grip
 on power and close schools,etc.... What a bunch of dogs.

 ct