Casualties mount in Myanmar

(01:39) Report

Sep. 27 - The White House is demanding that Myanmar's military government immediately halt an intensifying crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.

The second day of the crackdown began with a police warning to the tens of thousands who'd gathered in central Yangon - to disperse within 10-minutes or be shot. Security forces had set up barbed-wire barricades at major junctions in central Yangon in the early morning and bloodshed had appeared inevitable as monks on Burmese-language foreign radio stations urged their comrades not to surrender.

Helen Long reports.

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