Buddhist Monks March to Protest Film
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More than 500 Buddhist monks marched in the Sri Lankan capital Monday expressing outrage and demanding a ban on an upcoming Hollywood movie, threatening to fast &#151; even to death &#151; if their objections were not heeded.
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Protesters urged ticket-holders outside a Toronto cinema on Tuesday to boycott a documentary about a vicious animal cruelty case in which three friends filmed the skinning of a live cat as an alleged art project.
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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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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 24 -- As many as 100,000 protesters led by a phalanx of barefoot monks marched Monday in Burma's largest city in the strongest protests against the repressive government in two decades.
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Martial arts star Jackie Chan attends a televised rally in Hong Kong protesting against local media intrusion.
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The protests by Buddhist monks are part of a decades-long battle for democracy
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At least 70 monks detained and some beaten as security forces sweep through claimed hotbeds of protest movement.
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Buddhist monks and their anti-government supporters continue marches in Rangoon despite military regime's ultimatum.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 18 -- Hundreds of defiant monks marched through Rangoon on Tuesday, walking 10 miles through streets lined with cheering crowds, after being barred from Burma's most important Buddhist temple along the way, witnesses said.
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Military vows not to halt monk protests in biggest challenge to Burmese junta for a decade
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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Stepping out of her home in tears, democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi greeted Buddhist monks Saturday in a landmark moment for a swelling protest movement against the military junta.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 27 -- Pursuing their crackdown, Burmese security forces raided a half-dozen monasteries Thursday and fired warning shots to disperse demonstrations led by Buddhist monks demanding an end to military rule.
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At least 10,000 monks cheered on by thousands of onlookers began marching in Yangon on Monday in what appeared to be growing into the biggest demonstrations yet against the ruling generals.
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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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US groups pledge to protest at screenings of a film about sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey.
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Tens of thousands of 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.