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COMMENTS: Seething Monks
Pakistan had a day out of the headlines. ABC turned its attention to another former jewel of the British Raj. After a hiatus in coverage following September's crackdown by Myanmar's military junta on the pro-democracy protests led by Burmese Buddhist monks, Jim Sciutto posed as a tourist with videocamera and traveled to Mandalay to file his Exclusive. "In public the monks appeared peaceful; in private they were seething with anger," Sciutto found. Some were "locked inside their monasteries…many others were imprisoned far in the countryside, far from the public eye." The revolution, he reported, "goes on underground."
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