Myanmar anti-junta protests biggest in 20 years
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Tens of thousands of people joined Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar's former capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Myanmar's capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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More than 1,300 Buddhist monks marched in Yangon on Thursday, their largest demonstration in Myanmar&#39;s main city against the junta since they launched a protest movement in force earlier this week.
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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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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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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Myanmar announced Saturday that it was lifting a curfew and ending a ban on assembly imposed after a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the latest sign that the government believes it has extinguished the largest demonstrations in decades.
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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 20 years.
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Thousands have been protesting against the military junta across the capital, and in other cities in the tightly controlled, military-ruled country.
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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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President George W. Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday and urged other countries to follow suit amid Myanmar's biggest anti-government protests in 20 years.
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Myanmar's junta on Wednesday lifted a night curfew that was imposed on the country's two main cities to stifle the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.
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Military-run Myanmar put on a show of defiance Friday on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain amid global pressure for reform following the junta's bloody crackdown on dissent.
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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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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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The small street protests over the last two weeks are the most sustained defiance of the junta in a decade.
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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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Tens of thousands people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.