Myanmar junta intensifies protest crackdown

Security forces swept through Myanmar s main city Thursday killing nine people including a Japanese journalist and arresting hundreds more in a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests At least 50 000 people many of them youths and students swarmed into Yangon undeterred by the deaths the day before of at least four protesters including three Buddhist monks and repeatedly defied orders to disperse New footage from Democratic Voiced of Burma with testimony of among 20 monks escaped a raid in their monastery in Rangoon last night