Courtesy of the BBC:

A Buddhism student, who experienced first-hand the events of the last two weeks at a Buddhist monastery in Burma, describes the recent unrest.

They knew that there is no point in asking the generals for freedom. They knew that they don’t have guns and can’t beat the army. All they wanted to do was show the world what their situation is and that they are prepared to die.

Too bad Burma doesn’t have a Second Amendment.  And for all the Ghandi fans out there, a lesson that Passive Resistance only works on a government that is susceptible to public sentiment.

But when they hear that support for the demonstrations is dwindling and time passes by without help from anyone, they lose hope. They are getting disillusioned and eventually they’ll give up.

Which will make the American left happy.  Then they can get back into the News Cycle, demanding that we abandon the Iraqis to the tender mercies of the Burmese Junta’s spiritual brethern in Iraq.

And, for a parting shot, this from  the Daily Mail:

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma’s ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: “Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.”

And the silence from the American Left remains deafening…