It was 18 years ago when I read about soldiers shooting people on the streets. That was 1989, when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was shooting people in Tian-anmen and the streets of Beijing. The so-called people’s army is shooting the people. I was so outraged. It was something I hoped would never happen again.

A little more than 18 years later, it is soldiers in Myanmar shooting people on the streets this time round. And this time round, there were videos of the atrocities. Some were posted on Youtube and I get to see for myself the brutal murder of an innocent Japanese journalist – a man who is just doing his job to bring to us news. And the shameless junta has the cheek to say he was killed by a stray bullet.

Although only a total of 9 people were reported killed by Friday (I hadn’t read the papers for 2 days), rumors is that the Myanmar Army has been digging mass graves to bury the bodies. There are also rumors that elements of the Myanmar Army has disobeyed orders to open fire on the crowd and a CO of one of these units has been arrested and place under house arrest.

I hope elements in the Myanmar Army with a conscience should seize power from the junta now and free Aung San Suu Kyi. She won the elections fair and square back then.