Junta threatens Burma's protesting monks
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100,000 take part in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow.
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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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Burmese police beat protesters including monks at a pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.
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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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Exclusive: The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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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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Myanmar's generals threatened action against further attempts at demonstrations on Tuesday and parked military trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the main protests.
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RANGOON, Burma - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully yesterday in a northern Burma town noted for its defiance of the country's military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave of antigovernment demonstrations.
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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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Burma's military rulers try to stop the flow of information to and from the country as a crackdown on anti-government protests continues.
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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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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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Myanmar's generals threatened military force against any demonstrators on Tuesday and parked army trucks at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the assembly point for monks leading the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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BANGKOK - As protesters filled the streets of Burma's cities in greater numbers than ever yesterday, swelling the crowds in the country's largest city to an estimated 100,000, the government issued its first warning that it might take action against protesting Buddhist monks.
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The involvement of the revered Buddhist clergy has increased the challenge to the military junta.
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Burma's military junta bans groups of more than five people gathering.
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As thousands of civilians join the Buddhist monks' protests against the military junta, a confrontation may not be far off