Raids on Burma monasteries
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At least 70 monks detained and some beaten as security forces sweep through claimed hotbeds of protest movement.
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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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More than 100 Burmese monks defy public assembly ban by trying to penetrate barricade blocking Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.
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Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while beating Buddhist monks and hauling others away in trucks Wednesday as authorities tried to stop anti-government demonstrations, the first mass arrests since protests erupted last month.
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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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Government security forces cracked down for a second day today on protests, firing shots and tear gas, and raiding at least two Buddhist monasteries.
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The violent suppression of protests has shattered the uneasy coexistence of the Buddhist clergy and the military junta.
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through the Myanmar city of Sittwe on Wednesday, a day after soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots to scatter a similar protest against the ruling generals, a witness said.
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Traveler magazine's geotourism editor says the military dictators of Burma (Myanmar) are defacing medieval Buddhist temples at one of Asia's greatest archaeological sites.
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Buddhism, enthusiastically followed by the majority of Myanmar's 53 million people, is being exploited as a propaganda tool by the military junta, monks and analysts said after the curtain fell on a world Buddhist meeting held here.
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Thousands of monks take to the streets of Burma in a sixth day of protests against the military government.
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MANDALAY, Burma - As the lunchtime gong chimed through a tree-shaded monastery, several hundred monks in burgundy robes lined up, all holding alms bowls.
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BANGKOK - As protesters filled the streets of Burma's cities in greater numbers than ever yesterday, swelling the crowds in the country's largest city to an estimated 100,000, the government issued its first warning that it might take action against protesting Buddhist monks.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 23 -- About 20,000 protesters, led by Buddhist monks and nuns, on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising. Many in the crowd shouted support for the jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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Hundreds of Burmese monks march in Rangoon, in the latest of a series of protests against the government.
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Several thousand Buddhist monks stage new protests in three cities against the ruling military junta.