Police officer ordered to shoot monks, wants to retire

November 5, Independent Mon News Agency

The police officer who was ordered to open fire on protesting monks in
Moulmein, capital of Mon state in Burma in September wants to retire as he
is terribly upset with what he was forced to do.

A Second Lieutenant in the police force, he was ordered to shoot at monks
by Burma Army troops from the Military Southeast Regional Command, who
were dressed in police uniforms in September.

According to a friend of a Second Lieutenant, police officer is going to
retire and is bribing his superiors to clear his retirement on grounds of
failing heath.

A police officer told his friends that he did not want to work anymore
because what he was ordered to do was against police rules.

He and other policemen were being commanded by military officers and they
were waiting for the monk-led protesters. But luckily the protest was
canceled that day in Moulmein.

Many policemen in Moulmein would like to retire like him in the wake of
the September crackdown because they were ordered to kill respected monks
and common people.