More Than 1, 000 Monks Protest in Myanmar
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Yangon on Tuesday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Myanmar's most important Buddhist temple, witnesses said.
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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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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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Thousands of protesters dotted the streets of Myanmar's largest city Thursday in peaceful protest against the ruling military junta, but missing from the crowd in the western section of Yangon were the Buddhist monks who once made up a majority of demonstrators, Johan Hallenborg, a Swedish embassy official told CNN.
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Nuns and others joined the Buddhist monks in Sunday's marches against the ruling junta.
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Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar  fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000  Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern  city of Sittwe, a witness said.
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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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BANGKOK - As protesters filled the streets of Burma's cities in greater numbers than ever yesterday, swelling the crowds in the country's largest city to an estimated 100,000, the government issued its first warning that it might take action against protesting Buddhist monks.
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Seething crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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A Buddhist group claiming to be aiding monks drive an escalating protest movement in Myanmar called Saturday for nationwide prayer vigils in a bid to turn up the heat on the military regime.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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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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Stepping out of her home in tears, democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi greeted Buddhist monks Saturday in a landmark moment for a swelling protest movement against the military junta.
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Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern city of Sittwe, a witness said.
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About 20,000 people, half of them Buddhist monks, protested Sunday at a pagoda in downtown Yangon in an escalating show of dissent against the military government, witnesses said.
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Several thousand Buddhist monks stage new protests in three cities against the ruling military junta.
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Myanmar's military junta said on Wednesday it had used tear gas and fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilians protesting in the northwestern coastal city of Sittwe.