Myanmar crisis six months on

Straits Times
Buddhist monks marching during a protest against Myanmar's military government in Yangon in September last year. For a few days that month, the monks seemed to have seized the initiative, and there was a sense of almost euphoric optimism in Yangon.
Then the army moved in. For three days, the streets rang with gunfire. Monasteries were raided, and monks were beaten with rifle butts. Hundreds of them were carted away in trucks.

The 'saffron uprising' had been crushed.