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Crackdown in Burma

So, while I was checking out Slashdot, I came upon a comment on the lack of news coverage in the US on the crackdown on the monk protesters in Burma. Surely I read a few articles about the military junta shutting down internet and other communications but the demonstrations died down and everything is back to normal right? Well, after following the two links below, it seems that the only things that have died down are the hundreds (possibly in the thousand) of monks who have been killed and their bodies dumped in the Burmese jungle.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484903&in_page_id=1811

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/01/burma.html?ref=rss

So as of 8:13am local time, I checked out LA Times, CNN, and Fox News and the only mentions, if you look hard enough, are of a Junta General meeting a UN envoy or old articles I have already perused. The only reason I can think of why this is not being reported in our major news outlets is that these massacres have not been confirmed. However, if the UK and world news outlets think the reports are credible enough to publish online, why not our own US of A news sources.

I am not a conspiracy theorist (yet).