New and improved junta thugs, Hitler brown shirt style.

New and improved junta thugs, Hitler brown shirt style.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/in-myanmar-pro-junta-vigilante-groups-wage-campaign-of-violence-disinformation.html

1988 name --Lon Htain, rhymes with Pain.

later Swan Ahr Shin --Possessors of Strength

present name Pyu Saw Htee.

in 2007 Saffron Revn a broadcaster who came over to my place to make papier mache pots to dance with, said thugs had been fed danbauk/biryani and drugs to beat up monks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron_Revolution

This happens all the time, since so-called Anti-Chinese "riots" actually rice unrest in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_anti-Chinese_riots_in_Myanmar

This time too 3000 criminals were released in mid Feb.