Burmese monks' protests gather momentum
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Around 1,000 Buddhist monks, flanked by thousands of onlookers, march in protest against the country's military regime.
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RANGOON, Burma - Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Rangoon yesterday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Burma's most important Buddhist temple, witnesses said.
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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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Thousands of monks and civilians march against Burma's military rulers amid tear gas and baton charges.
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The protests by Buddhist monks are part of a decades-long battle for democracy
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More than 100 Buddhist monks march, in first public demonstration since military junta crushed protests.
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Buddhist monks and their anti-government supporters continue marches in Rangoon despite military regime's ultimatum.
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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 - About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns yesterday mounted the largest antigovernment protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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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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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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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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Scores of monks march in Burma for the first time since the government's brutal crackdown on protests.
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About 100,000 people, led by Buddhist monks, defied Myanmar&#39;s junta Tuesday to stage an anti-government protest in downtown Yangon, witnesses said.
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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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Seething crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Thousands of monks were expected to march in Myanmar&#39;s main city Yangon on Monday, piling the pressure on its military junta after a weekend that saw the biggest show of dissent in nearly two decades.