'"People were all bloody. We were all broken. I was lucky to have escaped…I bumped into their people who were lying in wait for us. They were chasing us like animals. They also beat up people who were on the motorbikes in front...We had to drive our car into the paddy-fields…At about ten, we heard spurts of gun-shots. We saw burning cars…I don?t know who was alive and who was dead. All of them were lying flat on the ground with flowing blood.”1 That?s what twenty-six year old witness Ko Wunna Maung of Mandalay testified, describing the chilling violence that occurred on ?Black Friday”, May 30, 2003. He was driving alongside the car that held Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, when hundreds of NLD (National League for Democracy) supporters in a convoy of twenty cars and twenty-five motorbikes fell under attack by gunfire, catapults, bamboo stakes, and steel and iron pipes. More than a year has passed since the Depayin Incident occurred, and an influx of reports and eye-witness accounts have been published, yet the exact details of what happened that night remain vague. Amidst all this uncertainty one thing is abundantly clear: the statement made by the governing SPDC (State Peace and Development Council) that 4 people were killed and 50 injured at the hands of the NLD2 is undoubtedly a farce. The 500 to 1,000 recruited attackers responsible for the imprisonment, rape, murder and injury of the uncountable NLD members and supporters were under the direct orders and orchestration of the SPDC and the United Solidarity and Development Association, or USDA..."