Press Release: Terry Evans

7 January, 2008

Burma's brutal military junta deployed riot squads at Shwedagon and Sule pagodas last Friday to prevent pro-democracy protests on the country's 60th independence day anniversary.

The two Rangoon pagodas were key locations during last September's mass anti-junta protests.

The paranoid junta limited its celebrations to a military ceremony in the remote new capital, Naypyidaw, and a broadcast message from junta leader General Than Shwe.

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