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Soldiers passing through Sule Pagoda to close it down before protesting monks reach it during the protests in 2007. Sule Pagoda is the second most important site in Rangoon, and also of terrifying symbolic importance as it is just next to City Hall, where most of the killings in the 1988 uprising took place. The next day the military and riot police blocked the road, preventing monks from entering Sule Pagoda and shooting Japanese camera man Kenji Nagai. Soldiers also sealed off Shwedagon Pagoda, the most holy pagoda in the country, and the starting point of most of the demonstrations. While Shwedagon remained closed, Sule would be open for a few hours each day, teeming with soldiers, riot police and allegedly a high number of plain-clothes intelligence officers. Worshippers would have to present ID to be admitted into the pagoda.