Burma's Forces Raid Monasteries
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bout 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered in downtown Rangoon on Thursday, provoking soldiers to fire on the crowds with tear gas and resume the crackdown that has drawn international appeals for restraint
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Monks and pro-democracy protesters in clashes with riot police.
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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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Government troops retaliate violently against protesters in Burma's capital, sealing off streets and firing into crowds
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Myanmar'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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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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The violent suppression of protests has shattered the uneasy coexistence of the Buddhist clergy and the military junta.
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Hundreds of Burmese monks march in Rangoon, in the latest of a series of protests against the government.
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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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Monks have vandalized shops of those supporting the dictatorship in Myanmar, briefly taken local officials hostage and are now threatening to launch a boycott as early as Tuesday against the military leaders and their families.
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More than 100 Burmese monks defy public assembly ban by trying to penetrate barricade blocking Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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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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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 18 -- Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Rangoon on Tuesday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Burma's most important Buddhist temple along the way, witnesses said.
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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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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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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.