What happened in Burma (Myanmar)
September 2006
May 2008 (cyclone)
"So now monks are spreading out. We will make the next protest twenty times bigger than the last one. Which means it will be a general protest, a general strike across Burma. It will involve the whole country; all the different regions."
- U Sandawara
Ashin Kovida - escaped monk & protest leader
U Sandawara - one of "the 4 escaped monks"
U Pan Cher - Rangoon protest leader
Maung - revolutionary group leader
Zaw Nyein Latt - chairman, Burma Political Prisoners' Union (BPPU)
Myint Oo - Central committee member, All Burma Students' Defense Forces (ABSDF)
A monk inside Burma speaks to Jotman
Perspectives on Protest of 2007
reports on the Hidden Crisis
"Jotman is one of the most interesting sources on the Burmese crisis."
"In at least one respect, however, Burma is a more 'futuristic' society than our own."
- Jotman
So we are planning possible things that would force the regime to enter into dialogue – which is what we all want.
- Maung