Vigilant Vigil Vigilates

This week our family was able to attend the Peace for Burma Vigil in front of the Burmese Embassy in Phnom Penh. For the last week roughly 70-150 people gathered in support of the democracy movement led by the monks. We have all been disturbed by the news and pictures coming out of Burma. Monks with their limbs hacked off and then their bodies torched to the point their identity is unrecognizable. It's amazing to me that information and photos are still being sent out of Burma.
    Yesterday our whole family was there. There were the usual number of vigil-ants, and the same number of police, but the police seemed higher-ranking and were busy taking photos and video footage of the people there. I'm a little nervous as to what may come of that surveillance. But it is important to Samantha and I to support the Burmese, continuing our connection with the Burmese-in-exile community of Australia.

I don't know if this photo will make it through, but here's the picture...