Myanmar Soldiers Raid Monasteries In Yangon, Including One Caring For People Living With HIV/AIDS

Main Category: HIV / AIDS
Article Date: 02 Oct 2007 - 5:00 PDT

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Hundreds of Myanmar soldiers, riot police and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association on Wednesday raided several monasteries in Yangon, including one caring for people living with HIV/AIDS, Southeast Asia's Irrawaddy reports. According to the Irrawaddy, an abbot, four senior monks and four other people from the Maggin monastery, which houses HIV-positive people, were arrested. Soldiers initially "mishandled" the HIV/AIDS patients at Maggin but released the patients once documents confirmed they were receiving treatment, the Irrawaddy reports (Shah, Irrawaddy, 9/27).

At least 10 Buddhist monasteries were raided this week, and hundreds of monks were arrested for allegedly organizing pro-democracy demonstrations against the military government, Reuters reports (Wong-Anan, Reuters, 9/27).

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