peacefully protesting monks news reaching the outside world was scarce but al-jazeera correspondent tony bettany was able to film the unfolding events while 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 fuel 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 film a capsule young 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 o