Burma: A bad day gets worse

Late word from the Golden Land, via BBC: Government troops have launched overnight raids on monasteries and have arrested bunches of monks.

This will either put paid to the uprising once and for all, or kick the Burmese people into rage-induced overdrive. Monks and monasteries are held in VERY high regard in devout Buddhist Burma. This may well have the exact inverse reaction to what the junta wanted.

Thursday, already dawned in South East Asia, is going to be tense, tense, TENSE in Burma.