The BBC reports that 4,000 monks have been rounded up, disrobed, and shackled, and will soon be sent away from Rangoon. Some reports say they are on a hunger strike. How shameful this all is, and how difficult to watch with so little information. (It’s almost like the days before the internet and the 24-hour news cycle.) Pressure needs be put on China.

- Philip Ryan, Webmaster

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Sympathy protests in Japan. A Japanese journalist is said to have been killed by the junta — will the Japanese government apply pressure? And the countries have the most influence over the junta seem reluctant to use it.