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Endnotes - The Saffron Revolution – The 2007 Pro-Democracy Movement

 

1. Source: “Maroon Revolution in Numbers,” APPPB, October 2007.

2. See: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.  This report is available for download from www.ncgub.net.

3. Source: “A People Running on Empty,” IPS, 24 August 2007; “Soaring petrol costs deepen woes,” Bangkok Post, 20 August 2007.

4. Sources: “Protests over commodity prices point to structural damage beyond a quick political fix,” Mizzima News, 22 August 2007; “Soaring petrol costs deepen woes,” Bangkok Post, 20 August 2007; “Food Prices Spark Open Dissidence,” Mizzima News, 28 February 2007.

5. Sources: “Summary of Events in Burma, August 19-25,” Asia Pacific Peoples Partnership on Burma, 2007; “Contrary to Claims of Burma’s Junta, More than One Hundred Activists Arrested in Five Days,” AAPPB, 27 August 2007; “Burma: 2007 Protests Against Fuel Prices,” AHRC, August 2007; “Burma: 2007 Protests Against Fuel Prices,” AHRC, August 2007.

6. Sources: Summary of Events in Burma, August 19-25,” APPPB, 2007; “Burma: 2007 Protests Against Fuel Prices,” AHRC, August 2007.

7. Sources: “Summary of Events in Burma, August 19-25,” APPPB, 2007; “Contrary to Claims of Burma’s Junta, More than One Hundred Activists Arrested in Five Days,” AAPPB, 27 August 2007; “Burma: 2007 Protests Against Fuel Prices,” AHRC, August 2007; “Location of arrested activists remains unknown,” Irrawaddy, 4 September 2007.

8. Sources: “Monks and students demonstrate in Arakan State,” Kaladan News, 29 August 2007.

9. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

10. Source: Ibid.

11. Source: “Monks Set Fire to Government Cars,” DVB, 6 September 2007.

12. Source: “AHRC appeals for global Buddhist boycott of Burma regime,” AHRC, 20 September 2007.

13. Source: “Huge Crowds Turn Out to Hear Monks Condemn Junta,” Irrawaddy, 19 September 2007.

14. Source: “Monks in Myanmar March In Protest for Third Day,” New York Times, 21 September 2007.

15. Source: “Monks March in Kyaukpadaung, Aung Lan and Pakkoku,” DVB, 18 September 2007.

16. Source: “Two Thousand Monks March in Bago,” DVB, 18 September 2007.

17. Source: “Monk Bashed During September 18 Sittwe Protest,” DVB, 21 September 2007.

18. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

19. Source: “Summary of Events in Burma, August 19-25,” APPPB, 2007.

20. Source: “Myanmar Anti-Government Protesters Claim 100,000 Marching Through Yangon,” AP, 24 September 2007.

21. Source: “Deceptively Calm” Irrawaddy, 1 December 2007.

22. Source: “Defiant Protests Continue Despite First Signs of Military Response,” DVB, 25 September 2007.

23. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

24. Source: Ibid.

25. Source: Ibid.

26. Source: Ibid.

27. Source: Ibid.

28. Sources: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008; “Burma Army starts Killing,” DPA, 26 September 2007.

29. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008

30. Source: “Burmese Troops Fire on Rangoon Protestors; Unconfirmed Reports say Five Monks, One Woman Dead,” Irrawaddy, 26 September 2007.

31. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

32. Source: Ibid.

33. Source: Ibid.

34. Sources: “Japanese photographer killed, another foreign journalist injured”, RSF, 27 September 2007; “Japan inquiry into reporter death”, BBC News, 28 September 2007; “New footage of journalist shot in Burma shows soldier leaving scene with camera”, Japan News Review, 9 October 2007; “Video shows Japanese journalist 'being shot deliberately',” Times Online, 28 September 2007.

35. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

36. Source: Ibid.

37. Sources: Monks Flee Crackdown as Reports of Brutality Emerge,” The Guardian, 4 October 2007.

38. Source: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Human Rights Council, 6th Session, Agenda item 4, 7 December 2007.

39. Source: “Media Release: Bullets in the Alms Bowl now available online.  New report on Burma's September 2007 ‘Saffron Revolution’ provides new insight into a premeditated campaign of brutality and the cover up designed to hide the extent of that brutality,” HRDU, 10 March 2008.

40. Source: Saffron Revolution: Update, Altsean Burma, 15 October 2007.

41. Source: “Muslims detained for giving water to monks,” DVB, 7 November 2007.

42. Sources: “Burma Update 263,” PDC, 10 November 2007; “Army officer flees under threat of arrest,” DVB, 8 November 2007.

43. Source: “Head monk held in exchange for brother,” DVB, 18 October 2007.

44. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

45. Sources: “Clarification on Myanmar’s situation to UNSG Special Envoy Mt [sic] Ibrahim Agboola Gambari,” New Light of Myanmar, 7 November 2007; Detailed List of Detainees since peaceful Protests began on August 19, AAPPB, accessed online at: http://www.aappb.org/list_arrest_aug_sep_07.html on 6 January 2008.

46. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

47. Source: “Myanmar to ‘take action’ against 91 protesters,” AFP, 7 November 2007.

48. Sources: “Myanmar holding 1,000 people at Yangon campus – officials,” AFP, 2 October 2007; “Burma - Fear over the Country,” IPS, 4 October 2007; “Detained monks could be sent to hard labour camps,” DVB, 2 October 2007.

49. Sources: “Songwriter Ko Ye Lwin released,” DVB, 23 October 2007; “Conditions of Detention in Police Battalion #7, Rangoon,” AAPPB, 21 September 2007; Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

50. Sources: “Burmese monk speaks of interrogation horror,” The Sunday Telegraph, 7 October 2007; Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008; “Spies, suspicion and empty monasteries - Burma today,” The Guardian, 15 December 2007.

51. Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

52. Source: “Over 70 people released,” DVB, 26 October 2007, translation by HRDU.

53. Sources: “Monks in hell,” Irrawaddy, 11 October 2007; “Myanmar opposition endorses UN push for talks with govt,” AP, 12 October 2007; “Myanmar Rejects UN Call for Negotiations,” AP, 12 October 2007.

54. Source: Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution, HRDU, March 2008.

 


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