The latest news is the military junta's forces are showing no mercy and using live ammo.
A Japanese photo-journalist was reported shot in chest and killed and photos are circulating on the Burmese dissident and blog sites.
Here is link to my article on The Wild River Review Blog -- on the cultural and historical context of it all --
written on the 24th -- before the crackdown on the 26th.
http://blogs.targetx.com/wildriverreview/penworldvoices/
