Nuns join Myanmar protests, U.S. slams generals
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Buddhist nuns joined monks in growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday while the United States denounced the military leadership as brutal.
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Hundreds of monks marched towards central Yangon on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by Myanmar's ruling generals to send soldiers in to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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President George W. Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar on Tuesday as world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly focused on rising protests against military rule in the Southeast Asian state.
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The United States has cranked up the pressure on Myanmar's rulers by introducing a UN Security Council draft resolution urging them to release all political prisoners and end the use of rape as an instrument of war.
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RANGOON, Burma - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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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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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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Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar  fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000  Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern  city of Sittwe, a witness said.
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The United States demanded on Tuesday that Myanmar let humanitarian groups visit people arrested in recent protests against fuel price increases, citing unspecified reports they have been brutally beaten.
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Myanmar&#39;s ruling generals accused exile  dissident groups on Friday of fomenting two weeks of rare  protests and signaled no let up in efforts to crush them  despite harsh U.S. and European Union criticism.
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President George W. Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar on Tuesday as world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly focused on rising protests against military rule in the southeast Asian state.
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Several thousand Buddhist monks stage new protests in three cities against the ruling military junta.
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Myanmar's crackdown on protests against huge fuel price rises drew condemnation from the United States and expressions of dismay from other Asia-Pacific nations on Friday, but its ruling generals appeared defiant.
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Buddhist monks were allowed to march past police barricades to the home of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as street protests intensified against the ruling military junta.
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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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Hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Burma hold another demonstration against the military government.
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Nuns and others joined the Buddhist monks in Sunday's marches against the ruling junta.