Detained Myanmar protesters launch hunger strike
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A group of pro-democracy protesters detained in military-ruled Myanmar launched a hunger strike Thursday, demanding that authorities provide medical treatment for a wounded colleague, activists said.
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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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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 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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Myanmar soldiers and police cracked down hard on the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years, sealing off the Shwedagon Pagoda, firing tear gas and arresting up to 200 monks on Wednesday.
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and 11 top leaders of his regime have gone on hunger strike in their US detention centre, one of their lawyers said yesterday.
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Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.
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Security forces swept through Myanmar&#39;s main city Thursday, arresting hundreds of people and firing warning shots as they intensified a violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
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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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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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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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The government warned its citizens on Wednesday against &quot;all but essential travel&quot; to Myanmar as the military junta there launched a bloody crackdown on protestors.
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Demonstrators on Tuesday tried to mount a new protest against rising prices, but marched only 30 yards before being beaten and wrestled into waiting trucks by civilians who back Myanmar's military government, witnesses said.
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Myanmar's generals threatened military force against any demonstrators on Tuesday and parked army trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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It was announced yesterday that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his aides started a hunger strike in protest of their detention conditions.
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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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Tens of thousands people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.