Monks reported absent as thousands protest
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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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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday to protest Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.
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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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Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly.
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Monks and pro-democracy protesters in clashes with riot police.
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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. 24 -- As many as 100,000 protesters led by a phalanx of barefoot monks marched Monday in Burma's largest city in the strongest protests against the repressive government in two decades.
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Monks protesting at the Vietnam embassy in Phnom Penh are involved in violent clashes with police.
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RANGOON, Burma - Stepping up their challenge to the military government, Buddhist monks staged a second straight day of protests yesterday, briefly occupying a landmark pagoda in Burma's largest city during one of several marches around the country.
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Police with riot shields fired warning shots and dispersed a group of monks who had defied a ban on demonstrations.
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Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.
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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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Buddhist monks joined a protest by members of pro-government Eelam People&#39;s Democratic Party (EPDP) outside the Norwegian embassy against continued killings by Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Myanmar security forces raided several Buddhist monasteries on Thursday, arresting hundreds of the monks who have led the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years, witnesses said.
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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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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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Buddhist nuns joined the growing  protests against Myanmar&#39;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.