The Marching Monks of Mandalay

The Marching Monks of Mandalay
Originally uploaded by flickr photographerno1

Photo courtesy
New York Times agency France Getty images
BANGKOK, Sept. 24 — Myanmar’s military junta issued its first warning on Monday after a month of widening antigovernment demonstrations, saying it was prepared to crack down on the Buddhist monks who are at the heart of the protests.
By SETH MYDANS
Published: September 25, 2007
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/world/asia/25myanmar.html?_r=1...

45 years of military rule
Economic failure corruption
That won’t go away
A united front of clergy students activists
Struggle to finds a way
To get rid of the junta along with
The marching monks of Mandalay
A Japanese photographer Kenji Nagaji
Was shot down by army in Yangon
Bullets on protesters they spray
while others they mercilessly slay
Free Burma a cry
On a global display
Aung San Suu Kyi
Under house arrest
Has an important role to play
Gen Than Shwe and
His junta brutalizing
The tears of an enslaved nation
A collective will but no way

poem dedicated to the memory of photographer kenji nagaji..of japan