Press Release: Terry Evans

October 16

Burmese Generals Take Revenge

Today Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) made a plea to the generals to stop the torture of those detained after last month's mass street demonstrations. The pro-democracy NLD party, headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, called for an end to the persecution of the incarcerated Buddhist monks and '88 Generation Students.

Burma's paranoid junta has managed to shut down most channels of communication with the outside world. However, couriers are still reaching the Thai/Burma border with reports of a ruthless terror campaign being conducted inside Burma. The bloody backlash against the peaceful demonstrators is being orchestrated by the tyrant General Than Shwe and 11 other battle-hardened senior generals, who are relentlessly clinging on to power.

The recent crackdown has been well planned and executed. First the monasteries were raided in the dead of night, and monks involved in the demonstrations identified and arrested. Last week a dragnet swept through Rangoon. capturing leading members of the '88 Generations Students, who spearheaded the recent protests.

Former student leaders who have already endured long prison sentences, such as Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, are in prison once again, suffering mediaeval nightmares.

Now the junta is turning its evil eye on the ordinary Burmese, who were identified by the Military Intelligence during the recent anti-junta demonstrations.

So, despite widespread international condemnation and heightened sanctions, the dark days of sadistic interrogation, secret trials and long prison sentences are back with a vengeance. With one NLD leader already tortured to death earlier this month, Burma's peaceful revolution is being systemically crushed under the generals' jack boots.

ENDS

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