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RANGOON - The Burmese order troops have opened Thursday fire on the demonstrating mob in the former Burmese capital rangoon. Thereby according to a government spokesman nine demonstrators has perished and eleven wounded has touched. Under the deads also the Japanese cameraman Nagai Kenji of the video press office APF is. On the side of the army fell according to the spokesman 31 wounded. More rather Thursday invaded the order troops two Buddhist convents. A monk in the Ngwe indicated Kyar-klooster in the north of the city said that at least hundred of the in sum hundred fifty had been removed monks of the convent with violence. According to him reason soldiers with a vehicle the door plat whereupon they briefly and small started beat the affair.

Prevent the irruptions had been obviously meant for further protests against the military junta. Nevertheless will Thursday in rangoon certainly 70.000 people demonstrate the street on against the junta and also to express their anger concerning acting the order troops. Also in Mandalay, the second city of birma, remained it Thursday not quiet. Hundreds of monks became there by the army in a pagoda, a Buddhist heiligdom, held. Wednesday intervention the army for the first time at the protests invoked by Buddhist monks in rangoon, which one and a half week suffered started and always more massive become.

The army’s intervention of Wednesday cost living to certain one person. Burmese exiles said have learned however that there considers deads has fallen, under whom Buddhist monks. In the night of Wednesday on Thursday also the spokesman of the national liga for democracy, the party of opposition leading ASTRE Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested, as well as a governing board member and a former person elected of the party. Rumours that Suu Kyi from its house in rangoon, where she is for years kept under house judgment, had been transmitted to the prison did not appear on truth rely. The Burmese state newspaper New light or myanmar gave to Thursday “saboteurs – and foreign country” the debt of instigating the population. The newspaper wrote that media then at demonstrations in reality much less people on the leg were foreign savages do believe.

China, which stands on good foot with birma, called all parties Thursday to reservation and early the military government moreover the cause of the tensions in the country to tackle. The foreign press must according to China imply himself, because “whipped tales” concerning the events in rangoon can lead that the situation further deteriorate. Raising the fuel prices gave the direct occasion for the protests. After the price increase in august had been announced Burmese citizens will summon also already achtereen on to the street protest. 

The movement get a new pulse, then this month also Buddhist monk start demonstrate. Since the monks in very high look stand in birma kept themselves army and police force initially aloof, as a result of which more and more people dared the street go on. Meanwhile the protests go no longer only democratic and economic reforms desired for the fuel prices, but also and the vrijlating of political prisoners.