4,000 Monks

They have been allegedly rounded up, disrobed and in shackles at a disused race course and a technical college. God knows what will be done to them. One can only hope that Christians will lead the campaign against this vicious attack on non-violent religious freedom.

This is surely becoming an atrocity that renders every regime that deals with Burma and supports this barbarism outside the boundaries of the civilized world. Threatening a boycott of the Beijing Olympics does not seem to me unreasonable, unless the Chinese really do tell the junta to stop the killing.