"This time we will demonstrate - the government dare not kill all the people," he says. "So maybe 10,000 people - if 10,000 people were killed - will be killed, we will get democracy. Surely, we hope so. If necessary I'm ready to sacrifice my life, really. Me, including other monks, same."
Quietly sentiments such as this are slipping out of Burma through various reports.
The Shwedagon pagoda, a ralling point for protesting monks during the September uprising is blocked off my the military. Many monasteries are empty but the zeal is not forgotten,
"Nobody has dared to touch the monks before," he says. "Now this thing has happened - the monks were beaten, the monks were shot at, the monks are imprisoned. Well these things are very, very serious to us and nobody is going to forget the whole thing easily."
In a statement released this week, the All-Burmese Monks Alliance called for renewed support but without violence.
"If the public and monks join forces, we can resolve all our problems,"...."We must take responsibility for our own future, but avoid all violence," the statement said
But the monks are still targets for the junta who aim to suppress any further uprising. Many have been imprisoned or have fled to their own villages. The level of organization going on here is still unknown as it should be if it were to work.
There is some public organization, posters are being placed calling for rallies during Burma's 60th anniversary celebrations on Jan. 4 2008. Though this seems too soon and too sudden to retrieve the desired response. Still, a lack of action tomorrow should not be mistaken for reticence.
