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Cultural Survival |
 | | In Loikaw township the soldiers grabbed any male they could put their hands on, including the government servants, teachers, shopkeepers, workers, and farmers, etc. Later they released the government servants, but kept all those they had grabbed in the compound of 54th Infantry Regiment. |
 | | So, nearly every man in Loikaw township had to seek refuge in Buddhist monasteries, some took to the mountains and stayed in caves, some had to stay those three nights in the marshes, on the river bank of Baluchaung, and some had to hide on the roofs of the houses. |
 | | At about 2:00 A.M. on 6/23/89 the door of a certain house in Shwedaung quarter in Loikaw was opened forcibly by soldiers of 66th Division and the ensuing quarrel made the soldiers load their weapons and made the head of the family and their son draw the long Burmese swords. |
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