Monks put Myanmar junta in tight spot
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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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The absent member will be the one holding center-stage at a meeting in Hanoi of leaders of Asia and Europe. In a hard-fought compromise, Myanmar's ruling junta will not send its government head.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200 political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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Scores of monks march in Burma for the first time since the government's brutal crackdown on protests.
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Burma's military junta says it is ready to "take action" against monks in mounting protests, state media report.
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Gaining leverage over Myanmarâs self-sufficient, insular junta is proving as hard as it sounds.
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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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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- After nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks Wednesday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons and making scores of arrests to suppress anti-government marchers.
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In a growing campaign against decades of military rule in Myanmar, thousands of Buddhist monks are doing nothing -- literally -- and the generals are getting worried.
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Myanmar attempted to soothe UN concerns over the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi after the world body's Secretary General Kofi Annan condemned the military regime over its claimed democracy drive.
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More than 100 Burmese monks defy public assembly ban by trying to penetrate barricade blocking Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.
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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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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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Myanmar's generals launched pre-dawn raids on rebellious monasteries on Thursday in their crackdown on the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years, defying increasingly desperate international calls for restraint.
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Myanmar's military junta unveiled a timetable for the country's first elections in two decades, but it was unclear Sunday if detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to stand.
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Burma's government appeared to have cut public Internet access and troops occupied key Buddhist monasteries on Friday, witnesses and diplomats said, in an effort to end demonstrations against the ruling 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.