True Burma Death Toll May Never Be Known

Telegraph.co.uk

A crowd of around 3,000 people, with six monks at the front, faced the riot police and soldiers across barbed wire.

Photos show 'death' of Japanese man Your view: What should the world do? Beyond them shone the great gold dome of the Sule Pagoda. When three trucks of soldiers drew up the crowd began to run. Seconds later, without warning, there were several cracks of automatic gunfire. A Japanese man carrying a camera fell to the ground, grimacing in pain - the latest victim in Burma, formerly known as Myanmar. A few minutes later the soldiers removed his limp body. It took six of them to do so. Many people have been shot in Rangoon yesterday and the true death toll may never be known. Japan later confirmed that a journalist, Kenji Nagai, 50, had been killed. The Burmese Government said nine people were killed, which is almost certainly a gross understatement. Keep reading . . .