Burmese military threaten monks
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Burma's military junta says it is ready to "take action" against monks in mounting protests, state media report.
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After facing violence from the ruling junta, Buddhist holy men said they would refuse alms from the military - a move that is likely to embarrass Burma's dictatorship.
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Confronted by a military junta willing to pull the trigger, Buddhist monks and democracy activists in Myanmar face long odds in trying to uproot an institution that has wielded absolute power for 45 years.
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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 Buddhist monks in Burma held government officials hostage for more than five hours yesterday in a further escalation of the protests against the military regime's crippling increase in fuel prices two weeks ago.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Burma hold another demonstration against the military government.
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In a growing campaign against decades of  military rule in Myanmar, thousands of Buddhist monks are doing  nothing -- literally -- and the generals are getting worried.
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Burma's authorities arrest a poet who published a poem with a coded message against the country's military leader.
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Angry Buddhist monks in central Myanmar have released five of the 20 hostages they seized at their monastery on Thursday in a tense confrontation with the nation&#39;s military government, residents said.
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Fears of a repeat of 1988's bloody crackdown by Myanmar's ruling generals grew on Tuesday after the junta threatened action against monks at the centre of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in nearly 20 years.
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Government troops retaliate violently against protesters in Burma's capital, sealing off streets and firing into crowds
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The US says it is targeting a businessman and relatives of leaders of the military regime in new sanctions on Burma.
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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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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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More than 100 Burmese monks defy public assembly ban by trying to penetrate barricade blocking Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.
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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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Marches started by monks turn into large-scale show of defiance against country's military rule.