The crisis that is going on in Myanmar is devastating. The killings of the monks and innocent protesters by the government is horrific. What has this world come too? The atrocious events that are taking place all over the world are so horrible. Everywhere from the invasion of Iraq, the crisis in Darfur, and now the crisis in Myanmar. This crisis has affected an entire population of monks. It all started when Myanmar raised the price of oil to an extreme. The monks started to protest and brought together mass amounts of people. Some of the demonstrations were the largest that Myanmar has ever had.
The government poured out police officers into the streets to brutally harass the civilians and round up the monks. They started beating and torturing monks and not allowing them to take part in their everyday rituals. The interesting part about this is that the religion aspect plays such a large role in this crisis. The religion of Buddhism played a large role in centralizing the demonstrations and bringing people out to demonstrate against the current issue. The United Nations needs to place more pressure on the issue at hand and stop the human rights violations that are taking place against innocent Civilians and religious leaders such as the monks.
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