Burma monasteries in night raids
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Burmese security forces storm monasteries and arrest scores of monks after days of protests, witnesses say.
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Thousands of monks and civilians march against Burma's military rulers amid tear gas and baton charges.
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Armed only with upturned begging bowls, chanting Buddhist monks in Myanmar have caught the country's military rulers off guard with their peaceful protests.
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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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Myanmar&#39;s military junta tightened the  net on leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday,  raiding homes of known activists and their friends and  distributing their photographs in a manhunt around Yangon.
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A Buddhist monk walks past Thai soldiers on their vehicles at a temple in Pattani provine, southern Thailand. The three Muslim-majority southern provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand have been hit by a wave of violence.
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Fears of a repeat of 1988's bloody crackdown by Myanmar's ruling generals grew on Tuesday after the junta threatened action against monks at the centre of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in nearly 20 years.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Buddhists in southern Thailand say they are living in fear of attack by militants out of revenge for the violent deaths of 87 Muslims at the hands of Thai security forces.
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Burma's military junta says it is ready to "take action" against monks in mounting protests, state media report.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Defying international calls to relent, Myanmar's junta is still hunting down activists involved in September's monk-led protests, causing scores to flee to Thailand, fugitives and aid workers said on Wednesday.
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Monks command such respect in Burma because 80-90% of the country's population is Buddhist, the BBC News website's Sarah Buckley writes.
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RANGOON, Burma - Police in full riot gear attempted to disperse more than 100 Buddhist monks who defied the junta's ban on public assembly this morning by trying to penetrate a barricade blocking Rangoon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.
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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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Scores of monks march in Burma for the first time since the government's brutal crackdown on protests.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- After nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks Wednesday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons and making scores of arrests to suppress anti-government marchers.