Burma: 19 Yrs. of Protest
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The protests by Buddhist monks are part of a decades-long battle for democracy
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Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Myanmar's capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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100,000 take part in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow.
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Nine people are killed in Burma during a violent crackdown on protests against the junta, state media says.
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International agitators join mass protest
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As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
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About 100,000 people, led by Buddhist monks, defied Myanmar&#39;s junta Tuesday to stage an anti-government protest in downtown Yangon, witnesses said.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 24 -- As many as 100,000 protesters led by a phalanx of barefoot monks marched Monday in Burma's largest city in the strongest protests against the repressive government in two decades.
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Burma's leader calls for national unity, as the country marks 60 years since the end of British colonial rule.
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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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Burma's military authorities use tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of monks, reports say.
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Tens of thousands of people joined Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar's former capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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RANGOON, Burma - About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns yesterday mounted the largest antigovernment protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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About 20,000 people, half of them Buddhist monks, protested Sunday at a pagoda in downtown Yangon in an escalating show of dissent against the military government, witnesses said.
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About 200 Buddhist monks staged a brief demonstration in Myanmar on Friday, the fourth day of protests in the country, witnesses said. A day earlier, nearly 1,000 monks and thousands of citizens marched, the largest challenge in a decade to the iron-fisted junta that rules the nation.
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About 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks demonstrated against Myanmar's military junta Sunday, in what has quickly become the largest anti-government demonstrations since the failed democratic uprising in 1988.
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Thousands of monks and civilians march against Burma's military rulers amid tear gas and baton charges.