Myanmar troops pour into Yangon after protests
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The Myanmar 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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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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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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At least one protester was fatally shot by Myanmar security forces Wednesday, according to opposition reports, amid fears that the anticipated crackdown in Myanmar has begun.
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Thousands of protesters emptied the streets of downtown Yangon on Thursday after Myanmar&#39;s soldiers issued an ultimatum threatening &quot;extreme action&quot; unless the crowd dispersed, witnesses 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.
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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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Soldiers fired warning shots Thursday above an estimated crowd of 70,000 anti-government demonstrators defying a crackdown that has drawn international appeals for restraint by Myanmar's ruling junta.
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Myanmar's generals launched pre-dawn raids on activist monasteries on Thursday, ignoring increasingly desperate international calls for restraint in their crackdown on the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Myanmar security forces sealed off Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 200 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.
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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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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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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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Myanmar's military junta tightened the net around leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday, raiding homes of known activists and their friends and distributing their photographs in a Yangon-wide manhunt.
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Protesters returned to the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, undeterred by reports of security forces killing several monks as Myanmar's generals tried to end the biggest anti-military uprising in nearly 20 years.
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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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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.