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Monks 'too scared to protest' as Burma leader General Than Shwe visits Sri Lanka

Fri, 2009-11-13 16:03 — Robyn

Kandy Dancers, drummers and costumed elephants greeted General Than Shwe as the normally reclusive leader of Burma’s junta began a Buddhist pilgrimage in Sri Lanka.

Schoolchildren cheered and waved flags of both countries as the motorcade inched through the narrow streets of the central Buddhist pilgrimage city of Kandy — but, away from the spectacle, exiled monks forced to flee the repressive Burmese regime expressed anger over the visit and warned Colombo that its increasingly close relations with the regime would raise international concern further over the island’s human rights record.

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