"Fiery Pakokku monks who were in the forefront of anti-junta demonstrations have been under constant surveillance from authorities... A 35-year-old, slender, dark man with a long face wearing a white shirt and longyi is sitting in a teashop opposite a A-Nauk Taik, a famous monastery in western Pakokku. Many people, including the teashop owner, notice him. They know he is an undercover police officer assigned to watch the monks? activities in A-Nauk Taik, also known as Mandalay Monastery. Pakokku residents said that since the September monk-led protests, the authorities have assigned various officers in plain clothes to areas surrounding Buddhist monasteries, many of which are also monastic schools that train monks in the higher Buddhist scriptures..."