Monks arrested, tear gassed at Myanmar pagoda: witness
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Myanmar security forces sealed off Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 200 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.
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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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Crowds taunted soldiers and police who barricaded central Yangon on Friday to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar's 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship.
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Buddhist monks staged a new protest Friday against Myanmar&#39;s ruling junta, which is under mounting international pressure as it faces the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly 20 years.
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Soldiers fired warning shots in the air to break up hundreds of Buddhist monks protesting in central Myanmar against a massive hike in fuel prices, media reports and a resident said Thursday.
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Tens of thousands of people joined  Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar&#39;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 - Burma's military junta accused detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party of inciting unrest and instigating Buddhist monks to take part in protests over price hikes, state media reported yesterday.
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Myanmar's military junta has charged 10 activists detained during last year's fuel protests, including top dissident Min Ko Naing, and they could face up to seven years in prison, legal sources said on Tuesday.
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Exclusive: The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while beating Buddhist monks and hauling others away in trucks Wednesday as authorities tried to stop anti-government demonstrations, the first mass arrests since protests erupted last month.
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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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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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One protester is reportedly killed as Burmese police attack monks protesting against military rule.
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About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988.
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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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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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Buddhist nuns joined the growing  protests against Myanmar&#39;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.