in other news turkey's president is warning of swift revenge of its troops in syria continue to be attacked his comments come a day after his military said it killed $101.00 syrian government soldiers in retaliation for the deaths of 5 turkish soldiers and tuesday opposition forces shot down a syrian government helicopter as it received a village in england province tensions have been heightened and syrian government forces or forces advance on the last pockets of opposition held territory and the number of people killed by the cruel virus has passed 1000 chinese officials announced another 109 deaths the biggest single day jump since the outbreak began in december those are the headlines stay with us and al-jazeera these continues after we wind up next.

hello and welcome to rewind here at their house museum of islamic well the 1st story as we have it was the 1000000 man government's brutal crackdown on peacefully protesting monks news reaching the outside world was guest spots al-jazeera correspondent tony bettany was able to film the unfolding events whilst working undercover as one of the few international journalists on the ground at that time from 2007 here's his news special inside myanmar the crackdown.

it started as a protest over a few subsidies it became a popular uprising against the generals and their policy of oppression. throughout me and my hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets calling for freedom and democracy such gatherings hadn't been seen here for nearly 20 years. the focal point was the former capital gang gone at one stage 100000 people demonstrated here and the leaders with the monks men of peace. they became the rallying point for a nation. worship and followed by my name is tony burton and i was one of the few journalists and young then to witness the uprising and the brutal crackdown by the i. mean she.

was the world was moved by scenes like these but being down there on the streets among the thousands you could see the spirit and feel the exhilaration of ordinary people who believed they could throw off the yoke of military rule was that 'd i was. i was i was well you get democracy was it was because if i was going to heal the many people. the hot air is still going no democracy here no democracy. there no democracy here you know you know what i know you're not although you want them over but you know that well i really didn't have a man was understand me you know it was they were shooting here before that little have you broken up with anyone anyone hurt anyone hurt was thinking was.

was there is going here that moving forward inch by inch and they seem to be testing the military the standing over there with their guns ready to anyone's guess what's going to happen i was just the 2nd group of months we were the 1st i would discuss by the army now to go to ride ministry this actually was a photo where the 2nd was the symbols was going on was directly find. would have was for a little while nothing happened the ranks of the protesters swelled they became bolder. i. thought it wasn't to last. friday night that you know.

my all these people are going total total $25.00 she was. running more than 5 people out there at any one place now the army and the right place a lining up there now announcing for people to disperse or they will move things seems as if the start of the crackdown is now beginning thank you you're. already there. more than playboy's if i wasn't there for good ok. this is with 5 team who are not. from a local variable well we do just test the c.d.c. it was a 10 minute tenure. very much. i . think i.

think i. actually said what is now the public are responding i think it is pretty i think it is they tend to find. out. who. in 1988 the military killed more than 3000 pro-democracy demonstrators that hadn't been forgotten and it wasn't long before shots are being filed good luck i. thinking. it was a $100000.00 credit i want to thank you i'm going to start out i have already had an act of god do i but i am i so many want to hate on

course because it takes away the movie maybe i won't because things have moved in 5 people think i will tell you egypt was heading directly now to the silly photos of the medieval bank i think i was right thank you terry i think i think by god i mean police fired tear gas rubber bullets and live rounds did it thank you. thank you thank you thank you ok ok ok you. think i have i. think i think i was.

in the shadow of the shwedagon pagoda the monks gathered as it turned out for one last time i heard they had megaphones to shout out their message for peace and calm they were faced by soldiers with raised rifles and bandits i knew i. was i it was monks who tried to keep a tense situation calm i months and begged the police and soldiers for restraint i normally go to school and then knees before monks there was no pretense of respect any longer. ye i was i was some of the scenes of never being at the school that shows how ruthless the security forces were i mean miles

foreign minister had told the un security council the police and army exercise restraint i the scenes prove. i. i was i was was was

was was was was was was. was i thank ye i thank ye was incredibly some months back i was thinking i i was. others a skate join the confusion. i i want to talk one on one was security forces responded with tear gas

i. i i i i. i. i. i was excited i was i was clashes broke out all over the city volleys of shots were fired around us and over our heads i. i i i. i. want for you. i i want to talk one on one. i think. army rapid response units made lightning sweeps. i. was i.

was. already almost coming out you know but now you are going to stop car you know i think i. was. going to go get me some people whether they had signs saying no marks. turning a very fast. maybe they stopped. i. here i filmed while i walked through the middle of the soldiers as they beat and arrested civilians. i think 2. i kept on walking but eventually i was grabbed and hold back. in the confusion i managed to get away with my. camera. at the height of the crackdown something like 15000 troops and riot police arrest a makeshift of been on the streets the government has admitted they killed 10 people including

a japanese photographer observers believe far more died but it is impossible to say for sure. i really don't know where all this is heading so i've just witnessed the arrest about 8 or 9 young men who were trying to confront the army the army were rapidly they responded arrest them cut them off beat them a little bit and then we're taking their documentation. i saw them paraded through the streets i was trying to film not very successfully because they say you're filming we're going to take your camera and i'm very where what happened to the japanese photographer so it's a bit risky so you hear from everything from a distance very served to. people here living at ground every single day of their life and they got front row seats they turn out in their balconies and when i was filming sneakily to look at me and smiling with you having a degree of guns in the air. thousands of people were arrested during the night time curfews and the streets were finally under the control of the military.

we used secret cameras to record what was happening to avoid detection you constantly change hats and shirts never stay too long in one place and always check to see if you were being followed. a few people have said to me here that these protests and not yet finished a month told me that it's a young people but the stranglehold by the police and the military is so restricting that it's very difficult any want to move about let alone gather for mass in a kind of numbers that we've seen in the past few days. it's very difficult situation now people are talking about spies everywhere they're worried to be seen with a foreigner very concerned about what's going to happen to still the heart if you. still say they're prepared to brave the bullets in a battle they will have to say. the army is in control of all the main shrines in monasteries few monks could be seen on the streets hard to imagine in a city where there are something like 75000 monks. i think protests of

punishment. or you think there will happen again. women. don't have to spend long and what we don't know and they will. be down and beat and . soldiers and police are reviled here despised by many civilians for being the tool of the military hunter who's deprives them of basic human rights you wonder how they can ever be reconciliation here. they can do without it the dire social and economic problems which plague this once prosperous country and which provoked the 1st demonstrations still exist visible prominent affecting millions of people.

there are a lot of them in this country and these monetary systems show. the statistics sometimes nontraditional worse and. they. all move numbers suggest musician rates broadly around 35 percent. we know that it's actually much more severe a number of like because it's i'm so done i think where scraping the surface actually owns me. me a mass spends less on health and education per person than any other country in the world apart from north korea. it's quite amazing here when i used to be a capital c. . this is not even in the suburbs a short way from the city center you've got some poverty and very very basic conditions here but even so all the people here seem to smile there they seem to be kind of happy i wouldn't say content but there is

a. gentleness about these people that makes the situation around here even more difficult to comprehend and make sure a little bit angry i suppose seeing how they live and how difficult things are they want the basic fundamental rights that many people in the world enjoy and has been tonight's vote for so long. and probably will be denied them for longer as well. everywhere you turn there is poverty and hardship here. but not for everyone. so just try to film some big modern luxurious houses and such a contrast to what i've been seeing around the city in young gone the slums the policy the conditions the sanitation this is really something special. but i want to sing those 4 men. on the construction site how much they getting in

comparison to people in those houses or going to those houses something that would cost about $3400000.00 which is an awful lot of money in this country where the average wage is something like one dollar dollar 50 a day and that's if you're lucky enough to. carry a high unemployment you know because no statistics because the government doesn't release them but. the people without a lot of people in need of help people suffering hardship and. a climate of fear invades everything here people are being detained in a number of centers a young gone including here in the same prison. many i spoke to feel the treatment of the monks may in the end turn out to be the general's biggest mistake you know where well they want to go they are in the decision but if you were to give.

them the money right what do you. know this is the worst it got over what the what was the law. now finish 4th and finish your thought on little league office we'll never forget my. little son. who knows how many have been killed and imprisoned we may never know it's very difficult to get or have a precise number. the authorities are putting out any press releases they did admit to 10 dead but most people suspect that there's far more of them are that have been killed or in terms of arrest i'm sure it's in the bosnians bomb all these arrests started the road august all. from what we understand every night often for if he was going to start trouble going wrong the city will

picking up more people. bob why barricades are still around the city and across the road leading to the home of suchi who has lived under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years the monks lead is a gone left behind of the young and the old and what the military may think ineffectual but the air of resistance remains here. mostly not afraid not afraid and they feel in the month even when they come out who want to strike when they come here but in the poor guy who's stuck. in one of the more they come back to street protests and the nuts not afraid not every would shoot shoot shoot and fight. and strike.

but the people the people follow them uncle and all of them i'm proud of in my. eyes of the veteran monk. and you you you will come out the ministry tell you what . i think and. get home and go to. a safe show protest not finished another initiative. to show your. son walking up the road now to the trade. to go down this is about the 1st time in a week we're going to do this before the roads were blockaded with crude wooden and barbed wire devices behind which were armed police and it's impossible to pass this is one of the symbols of the resistance from the monks and the police and the army wanted to stop that but now it's open and i suppose that's now indicative that the generals the movie hunter have got the situation under control to their liking that they have. a good degree of security now that no one else will come out and protest

i suppose this marks the opening of this road map to the fact that this protest this uprising for democracy in short that spirited is probably over now. those streets you saw the violent protests are now empty of monks for a very brief time they carried the spirit of a nation seeking justice and human rights and they have paid a terrible price and no matter what political agreements and named what dialogue is followed it's a price which will never be forgotten by the people of myanmar. a remarkable rack hold of advance which helped hasten the end of military rule inside man ma there mcgregor is a journalist who's written extensively on men over the last few years and she joins us now via skype from young gone really fantastic to have speech if you know thanks for joining us here on rewind to what extent did those protests that we saw in tony but these reports pave the way for the end of military rule and becoming to fact

anita. i think we have to remember that military is still a huge problem here and there and 81925 percent is in the parliament and i think it is 1st until a member there's a lot of questions of as to how much control those who actually has but how is that improve the lives of people given that they bow got the democracy they crave for has that come with them proved sounds of living i think it depends very much for you there but i think the military voting for more than a modicum of power i mean dorsey has said to her it from the very beginning that her even where. to bring peace. and bring about a constitutional change the military effectively has a veto over whether the constitution if. i'm very very still in the border areas particularly fiction and but also more recently and in conflicts in

the trains. and of the city and. in the other reply. to these are only areas rhythm of the military very much so many of what happens there and he was saying earlier that the military still retains no float of control in the areas outside of yangon shan state in iraq hina of course the rangar issue is huge today and unfun city comes under a lot of criticism for not doing more to protect the writing of people but hobson and maybe you'll correct me aaron tell me a bit more about that perhaps she doesn't how that control in that area. i think most people would say that she has very little control over the. you know they are teaching her in. teaching in the streets and. are incredibly poor so i don't know if anyone really appreciates. acting i mean

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