What are the two sides fighting/protesting about? I haven't been following this story very closely, and its hard to find anything on the underlying reason for the conflict. Why do journalists write stories like this? It's like when they say "a truck ran over three children today in a crowded market" as if the truck was just out tooling around with no driver on its own accord. All you basically get out of the coverage of this is "military are being mean to protestors and monks" without a lot of details about what is actually fueling the conflict.