According to the Bangkok Post, "United Nations Special Rapporteur Paulo Sergio Pinheiro on Monday investigated claims that the ruling junta last September beat up, killed and burned the bodies of Buddhist monks and their followers in temples, prisons and crematoriums in Rangoon."
UN human rights expert Pinheiro, who arrived in Rangoon Sunday after being denied a visa to visit the country since 2003, has been on the move since his plane touched down, sources said.
First he visited Kabaraye, the seat of Burma's Sangha, or the Buddhist hierarchy similar to the Catholic Church's senior clergy. Pinheiro held talks with the 47-man Sangha, the outcome of which was not disclosed.
He proceeded to Ngwe-Kyar-Yan monastery, South Okkalapa township, where monks were allegedly beaten and taken away in army trucks on the morning of September 27. The abbot of that monastery was severely beaten and according to some accounts, has died of his injuries.
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