Myanmar troops fire shots to disperse crowds
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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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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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Burmese soldiers open fire as they attempt to disperse thousands of protesters in the streets of Rangoon.
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Chanting &quot;democracy, democracy,&quot; 10,000  monks marched through the heart of Myanmar&#39;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 20 years.
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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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Government troops retaliate violently against protesters in Burma's capital, sealing off streets and firing into crowds
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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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Foreign peacekeepers fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse gangs battling each other Wednesday after an explosion wounded four people, officials said.
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BANGKOK - Ending nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks yesterday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons, and making scores of arrests to suppress antigovernment marchers.
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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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Soldiers and police fired into crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's largest city and gave them 10 minutes to clear the streets or be shot on Thursday, with nine people killed in the second day of a crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta tightened the  net on leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday,  raiding homes of known activists and their friends and  distributing their photographs in a manhunt around Yangon.
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About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988.
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Myanmar's junta sent armed police to ring key Buddhist sites on Friday, the end of an annual period of monastic retreat, to prevent any resurgence of last month's monk-led protests, the biggest uprising in two decades.
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: French troops fired into the air today to disperse protesters gathered to protect President Laurent Gbagbo, as unrest swept Ivory Coastâs main city Abidjan after weekend clashes between French and Ivorian forces.
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Soldiers fired warning shots in the air to break up hundreds of Buddhist monks protesting in central Myanmar against a massive hike in fuel prices, media reports and a resident said Thursday.
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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.