Protesters defy junta crackdown in Myanmar town
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Around 50 members of Myanmar's main opposition party staged a protest march in a provincial town on Monday, witnesses said, as a major junta crackdown failed to stifle rare displays of public anger at soaring fuel prices.
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through the Myanmar city of Sittwe on Wednesday, a day after soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots to scatter a similar protest against the ruling generals, a witness said.
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Despite an order from Myanmarâs junta to stay out of politics, Buddhist monks returned to the streets today.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested Wednesday outside the locked gates of Myanmar's most revered temple, challenging the country's military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.
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Troops cleared the streets of central  Yangon on Thursday, telling protesters they had 10 minutes to  go home or be shot, as the Myanmar junta intensified its  two-day crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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Military-run Myanmar on Saturday lifted a curfew in the main city Yangon that was imposed on the eve of the junta's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a local official told AFP.
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Almost 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's biggest city Thursday while protected by onlookers, keeping alive the most sustained protests against the military government in at least a decade.
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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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Burmese police beat protesters including monks at a pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.
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Buddhist monks spearheading the biggest anti-government marches in nearly two decades relaunched their protests in Myanmar's two major cities Tuesday, defying orders to stay out of politics.
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Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew  in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday which was imposed  last month after mass protests that prompted a crackdown.
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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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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 poured troops and police armed with rifles into central Yangon on Tuesday in an attempt to end the biggest demonstrations against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Troops and riot police took up positions outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new protest marches against military rule, witnesses said.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 25 -- Burma's military rulers imposed a nighttime curfew and banned assemblies Tuesday after thousands of Buddhist monks defied their warnings and mounted another day of pro-democracy protests to the cheers of crowds in the streets of Yangon.
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Myanmar security forces sealed off Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 80 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.