I was traveling most of the weekend (since Thursday) and trying to keep up with the news mostly with the browser on my phone and on my laptop during those few times when I found not only a free wireless connection but a wireless connection that worked.
The United States took political action Thursday by ordering sanctions against officials in the Junta leadership in Myanmar who authorized deadly force to quell peaceful protests organized by religious leaders over the passed week. In addition to the deaths, several monasteries have been all but destroyed and their leaders taken captive.
The economic sanctions will freeze assets of 14 Junta leaders who have finances in U.S. banks or other financial holdings under U.S. jurisdiction. Thursday’s demonstrations that killed nine protesters mark the tenth day of protest toward the militaristic regimes crackdown. The protestors could be heard shouting, “Give us freedom, give us freedom!”
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