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- <text id=90TT2889>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: World Notes:Burma
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- BURMA
- Tempest in a Begging Bowl
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying
- fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid
- plain. For the clergy of the Phaya-gyi monastery, however, the
- dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as
- government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested
- about 20 of its monks.
- </p>
- <p> In protest against the violent quelling of an antigovernment
- demonstration, some holy men in Mandalay had launched a
- campaign of refusing alms from soldiers and denying them other
- Buddhist sacraments. At times, the monks would overturn their
- alms bowls when a soldier approached. Finally, after the
- government ordered an end to the protest, troops armed with
- bayonets encircled Mandalay's 133 monasteries, then raided and
- ransacked some of the holy places.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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