September 27, 2007. Suspicious Burmese had predicted violence on this date, whose digits in the Gregorian calendar add up repeatedly to the astrologically powerful number 9: the 27th day of the 9th month in 2007.
The astrologist got this one right.
It was the day Japanese journalist Kenji Negai was murdered a soldier in cold blood. It was the day Burma's junta was irreparably disgraced before they eyes of the entire civilized world.
Protest leader U Pan Cher helped to lead protesters on 27 September, as he had on previous days. At a safe house in Thailand, he shared his firsthand perspective concerning that ominous and decisive day.
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