Myanmar junta watches monasteries
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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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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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Monks command such respect in Burma because 80-90% of the country's population is Buddhist, the BBC News website's Sarah Buckley writes.
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Burma's monks call on the public to join their demonstrations, as anti-government protests mount.
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Secret networks of dissident citizen  reporters operating beneath the noses of government spies in  army-ruled Myanmar are giving the world unprecedented glimpses  of the biggest anti-junta protests in two decades.
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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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Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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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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Hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Burma hold another demonstration against the military government.
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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 junta held nearly 1,200 political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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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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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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Despite an order from Myanmarâs junta to stay out of politics, Buddhist monks returned to the streets today.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing  protests against Myanmar&#39;s ruling generals on Sunday, a day  after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San  Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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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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About 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks demonstrated against Myanmar's military junta Sunday, in what has quickly become the largest anti-government demonstrations since the failed democratic uprising in 1988.