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COMMENTS: Myawaddy Diary
A week after the opposition protests in Myanmar were suppressed, NBC's Ian Williams posed as a tourist with a handheld camera and crossed from Thailand into the border town of Myawaddy. He found the mood "filled with poverty and tension…life goes on but they are nervous of outsiders." The town is a main crossing for dissidents fleeing the military's crackdown. Williams talked to a trio of Burmese Buddhist monks who had participated in last week's street protests. "There were raids day and night. If monks were arrested, they were beaten, kicked and slapped," one monk recounted as he headed into exile.
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