Burma gaurds accused of killing protesters

Guards at detention centres in Burma beat, kicked and slashed protesters rounded up during the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, sometimes leaving their victims to die of their injuries, a dissident group said today.

At least a dozen freed prisoners described brutal treatment at detention centres, including one who said "dozens" of detainees were killed, the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based short-wave radio station and website run by dissident journalists, said in a report today.