Myanmar troops pen protest monks in monasteries
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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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As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
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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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Nuns and others joined the Buddhist monks in Sunday's marches against the ruling junta.
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Myanmar's military government on Monday put monasteries under close watch and cut off the cell phone service of known dissidents to clamp down on the most sustained anti-government protests in a decade.
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Burma's largest anti-junta protest in nearly two decades takes place in Rangoon, led by Buddhist monks and nuns.
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Several thousand Buddhist monks stage new protests in three cities 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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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.
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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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Myanmar's generals launched pre-dawn raids on rebellious monasteries on Thursday in their crackdown on the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years, defying increasingly desperate international calls for restraint.
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Myanmar's military junta broadcast warnings on Tuesday that included the possibility of using military force to disperse what it called unlawful street protests.
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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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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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Thousands of protesters dotted the streets of Myanmar's largest city Thursday in peaceful protest against the ruling military junta, but missing from the crowd in the western section of Yangon were the Buddhist monks who once made up a majority of demonstrators, Johan Hallenborg, a Swedish embassy official told CNN.
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Burma's monks call on the public to join their demonstrations, as anti-government protests mount.
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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.