On Thursday evening, U Gambira, the Burmese monk who helped to lead 2007’s Saffron Revolution — and was only just released from prison four weeks ago — was taken away by authorities in Yangon.
As Thomas Fuller of the New York Times reports, “Since his release in January, Mr. Gambira has maintained a hard line against the government, telling an interviewer that Myanmar still had the ‘characteristics of a dictatorship.’ He has also sought to reopen a Yangon monastery that served as a center of opposition during the 2007 uprising. The monastery was shut down by the authorities after the uprising, which was crushed in a bloody crackdown. Details of Mr. Gambira’s detention were slow to emerge Friday. The Associated Press quoted a Home Ministry official in Myanmar as saying the monk had been taken in for ‘questioning in relation to an incident that happened after his release.'”
Read the rest of Fuller’s report here.
