Odds against monks facing Myanmar troops
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Confronted by a military junta willing to pull the trigger, Buddhist monks and democracy activists in Myanmar face long odds in trying to uproot an institution that has wielded absolute power for 45 years.
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Emboldened after a march to see Myanmar&#39;s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks on Sunday launched the biggest challenge against military rule in nearly two decades.
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Myanmar's generals threatened action against further attempts at demonstrations on Tuesday and parked military trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the main protests.
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Several military trucks were stationed outside Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Tuesday, the assembly point for tens of thousands of Buddhist monks marching against Myanmar's ruling generals, a Reuters witness said.
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Gaining leverage over Myanmarâs self-sufficient, insular junta is proving as hard as it sounds.
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The protests that shook Burma in September might have been crushed, but opponents of the military regime have not gone away, reports Chris McGreal
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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Marches started by monks turn into large-scale show of defiance against country's military rule.
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A Buddhist group claiming to be aiding monks drive an escalating protest movement in Myanmar called Saturday for nationwide prayer vigils in a bid to turn up the heat on the military regime.
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RANGOON, Burma - Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks, joined by thousands of their countrymen, marched in Burma's largest city yesterday in the biggest challenge in at least a decade to the iron-fisted junta, a show of strength rare under military rule.
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Thousands of monks were expected to march in Myanmar&#39;s main city Yangon on Monday, piling the pressure on its military junta after a weekend that saw the biggest show of dissent in nearly two decades.
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An international Buddhist organization's plans may displace hundreds.
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The absent member will be the one holding  center-stage at a meeting in Hanoi of leaders of Asia and  Europe. In a hard-fought compromise, Myanmar's ruling junta  will not send its government head.
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Hundreds of monks marched towards central Yangon on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by Myanmar's ruling generals to send soldiers in to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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In a growing campaign against decades of military rule in Myanmar, thousands of Buddhist monks are doing nothing -- literally -- and the generals are getting worried.
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More than 300 Buddhist monks on Wednesday took to the streets in Myanmar&#39;s main city of Yangon in the latest show of public defiance against the junta, one month after a series of protests began.
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The involvement of the revered Buddhist clergy has increased the challenge to the military junta.