FACTBOX: Global reaction to Myanmar protests

Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:36pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Nine protesters were killed and 11 wounded in Myanmar's main city on Thursday in a crackdown on the biggest anti-junta demonstrations in nearly 20 years, state television said

Following is some of the reaction around the world to the protests in Myanmar and the junta's crackdown.

WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN TONY FRATTO:

"The world is watching. We also need the world acting," he said, calling it "an outrageous situation".

JAPAN'S CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY NOBUTAKA MACHIMURA:

"What Myanmar is doing is wrong."

After 50-year-old Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai found dead in Yangon: "We will protest to the Myanmar government and seek clarification of the truth."

CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN JIANG YU:

"As a neighbor, China is extremely concerned about the situation in Myanmar."  Continued...

 

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