Protest in Burma Is Largest Since '88
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 23 -- About 20,000 protesters, led by Buddhist monks and nuns, on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising. Many in the crowd shouted support for the jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Lorries with loudspeakers drive through Burma's main city, Rangoon, warning people not to join mounting protests.
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Military vows not to halt monk protests in biggest challenge to Burmese junta for a decade
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Recent protests in Burma by democracy activists, defiant monks and other citizens objecting to an unprecedented spike in fuel prices have sparked a brutal crackdown by the country's ruling military junta and cast a new spotlight on the gravity of conditions in the resource-rich country.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested Wednesday outside the locked gates of Myanmar's most revered temple, challenging the country's military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.
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Almost 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's biggest city Thursday while protected by onlookers, keeping alive the most sustained protests against the military government in at least a decade.
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100,000 take part in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow.
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Thousands of monks take to the streets of Burma in a sixth day of protests against the military government.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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Marches started by monks turn into large-scale show of defiance against country's military rule.
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Burma's military authorities use tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of monks, reports say.
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Buddhist monks were allowed to march past police barricades to the home of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as street protests intensified against the ruling military junta.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar  fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000  Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern  city of Sittwe, a witness said.
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Military-run Myanmar put on a show of defiance Friday on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain amid global pressure for reform following the junta's bloody crackdown on dissent.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 25 -- Burma's military rulers imposed a nighttime curfew and banned assemblies Tuesday after thousands of Buddhist monks defied their warnings and mounted another day of pro-democracy protests to the cheers of crowds in the streets of Yangon.
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Thousands of protesters dotted the streets of Myanmar's largest city Thursday in peaceful protest against the ruling military junta, but missing from the crowd in the western section of Yangon were the Buddhist monks who once made up a majority of demonstrators, Johan Hallenborg, a Swedish embassy official told CNN.