Myanmar monks chant "democracy", soldiers move in
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Chanting "democracy, democracy", 10,000 monks marched through the heart of Myanmar'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 nearly 20 years.
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Buddhist monks spearheading the biggest anti-government marches in nearly two decades relaunched their protests in Myanmar's two major cities Tuesday, defying orders to stay out of politics.
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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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Marches started by monks turn into large-scale show of defiance against country's military rule.
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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.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets on Thursday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.
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Nuns and others joined the Buddhist monks in Sunday's marches against the ruling junta.
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Thousands of monks continue their protest in Burma, chanting as they march to the Sule pagoda in Rangoon
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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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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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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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At least 10,000 monks, cheered on by thousands of onlookers, marched in Yangon on Monday in what appeared to be growing into the biggest demonstration yet against the ruling generals.
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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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More than 300 Buddhist monks on Wednesday took to the streets in Myanmar&#39;s main city of Yangon in the latest show of public defiance against the junta, one month after a series of protests began.
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YANGON, Oct. 20. - A change in Myanmarâs political leadership brought fresh calls today for the military-ruled south-east Asian country to carry on with promises to restore democracy.
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Troops and riot police took up positions outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new protest marches against military rule, witnesses said.
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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.