Myanmar troops pour into Yangon after protests
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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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At least 10,000 monks cheered on by thousands of onlookers began marching in Yangon on Monday in what appeared to be growing into the biggest demonstrations yet against the ruling generals.
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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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Pro-government gangs on trucks staked out key streets in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday as the country's military rulers sought to crush a rare wave of dissent by pro-democracy activists protesting fuel price increases.
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At least 5,000 monks and nuns, applauded by thousands of onlookers, marched in Yangon on Sunday, the largest demonstration yet in Myanmar in a rare wave of protests against the ruling generals.
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About 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks demonstrated against Myanmar's military junta Sunday, in what has quickly become the largest anti-government demonstrations since the failed democratic uprising in 1988.
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Troops fired shots over the heads of a large crowd in central Yangon on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown intensified against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years, a witness said.
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Chanting "democracy, democracy", 10,000 monks marched through the heart of Myanmar's main city on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by the ruling generals to send in troops to end the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.
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Crowds of protesters in central Yangon scattered on Thursday after more then 200 soldiers and police marched through the streets with loudspeakers, ordering people to go home or risk being shot, a witness said.
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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 army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive whose past human rights violations have been far greater than those against urban protesters that riveted world attention last fall, aid and rebel groups say.
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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 sealing off central Yangon behind barbed-wire barricades on Friday in anticipation of fresh protests against 45 years of military rule in Myanmar and deepening economic hardship.
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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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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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Eight truckloads of armed riot police moved into central Yangon on Tuesday after a second day of mass protests against Myanmar's military junta ended without incident, a Reuters witness said.
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Around 50 members of Myanmar&#39;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.