☆焦った軍政がとうとう僧侶に警棒で殴打するなどの暴行を加えたようです。これにどう一般市民が反応するかが、今回の民主化要求の行方を決定しそうです。天安門事件のような大規模な殺戮が行われないことを祈っています。
Riot police have used batons to beat back protesters including monks at the Rangoon pagoda used as a rallying-point for marchers, eyewitnesses say.
They baton-charged a crowd of civilians and monks outside the Shwedagon Pagoda as demonstrators readied for a ninth day of protest marches.
Police and troops have been ringing Buddhist monasteries in the city.
Analysts fear a repeat of the violence in 1988, when troops opened fire on unarmed protestors, killing thousands.