University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 8, 1988
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Buddhists break with tradition resort to anti-political violence
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — Buddhists in Burma kill each other while saffron-robbed monks shake fists against the government, violating a.500-year old rule against taking the throne; Buddhist clerics shunning polishisms.
Buddhist societies from Sri Lanka to South Korea, Burma to Tibet have proved as prone to violence as others in recent times. The Buddhist school of Buddha, the great religious teacher of the 5th century B.C.
Cambodia, once a land of 90,000 monks in scores of quiet temples, was turned into a killing field by the savage Khmer Rouge. The
current government says 3 million died in the 1975-78 reign of terror.
In wartime South Vietnam, protesting monks set themselves afire. More recently, conflict between the majority Sinhala Buddhists and Hindu Farnals have increased to 0,000 dead in Sri Lanka.
A mokn in Burma told a U.S. lawmaker that the government does not change policies to prevent shedding the people's blood is to fight them to the end.
The image of Buddhist gentleness persists, however. Proponents like to say Buddhists have a kind of wisdom that is at the stake, as Christians
did, or established anything akin to today's strident Islamic states.
Southeast Asia's Theravada Buddhism, one of the religion's two major branches, places special emphasis on the interneutrality and non-confrontation.
William Klauser, a U.S. expert on Thai culture, says Buddhists try to avoid confrontational behavior such as a sharp word, a push or a slap that others might employ in a situation of conflict.
"Violence is the last resort," he said, "but when the eruption comes it's going to be more dramatic. The Thais say there is little maneuvering room between the smile and the knife."
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He described it as the largest force he had seen in Rangoon in two weeks.
Opposition leaders called for a nationwide general strike against 26 years of the Iraq war. Leaders hoped for the largest of the many mass protests that have driven two governments in office less than two months.
Looters raped through the capital, and one Western diplomat said. "The streets are deserted," he said. The property. Things have pretty much closed down. There is a widespread perception that things are under control.
State-ran Rangoon Radio reported looting in 38 areas of the capital Tuesday and yesterday.
said security forces shot and killed five people, wounded six and arrested 88 looters.
The radio urged people to report losters to police and said more than $43 million in state property was being seized, since the beginning of August.
An earlier broadcast said security forces would open fire to impose control.
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National Park Service officials said a century of misguided attempts to fight every forest fire worsened this summer's blazes in Yellowstone-National Park by allowing a natural buildup of fuel.
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"It's obvious it made it worse," said Walt Dabney, chief ranger of the service.
If more fires of the past had been allowed to burn, fewer combustible gases would have built up through the natural decaying of tree leaves and underbrush. Thus, today's forest officials are able to manage the officials said.
The Park Service has followed a policy of letting most fires burn since 1972. It fights only when they are in areas or areas outside the parks.
Although the service will review its policy of letting many fires burn, "our policy is sound, based on science and experience," Penn Mott, director of the service.
"The problem is the building up of fuel in many areas due to the previous policy."
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