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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
How many monks have to die before the UN moves --
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41073
Marwaan Markar of Inter Press Service interviews Ashin Kovida, one of the leaders of the Burmese monks' demonstrations of 2007.
