Fear descends on Yangon after crackdown
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A week after Myanmar&#39;s junta cracked down on peaceful protests against soaring fuel costs here, residents now live in fear, with few daring to venture out into a city swarming with plainclothes police.
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Muslim separatists are warning of a violent backlash against the brutal quelling of a riot that left 85 protesters dead in the south, as the Thai premier faced mounting questions over the handling of the incident.
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Military-run Myanmar put on a show of defiance Friday on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain amid global pressure for reform following the junta's bloody crackdown on dissent.
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Myanmar's generals arrested 18 more activists on Friday and deployed pro-junta gangs on the streets of Yangon for the third straight day in a major crackdown on protests against soaring fuel prices.
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Myanmar's military junta tightened the net on leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday, raiding homes of known activists and their friends and distributing their photographs in a manhunt around Yangon.
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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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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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Violence began before dawn as Myanmarâs military junta tried to crush a wave of nationwide protests with tear gas, beatings and volleys of gunfire.
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Hundreds of monks marched towards central Yangon on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by Myanmar's ruling generals to send soldiers in to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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More than 300 Buddhist monks on Wednesday took to the streets in Myanmar&#39;s main city of Yangon in the latest show of public defiance against the junta, one month after a series of protests began.
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Pro-government gangs on trucks staked out key streets in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday as the country's military rulers sought to crush a rare wave of dissent by pro-democracy activists protesting fuel price increases.
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Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly protests against a reduction in her security.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BANGKOK, Thailand -- The sacking of Myanmar&#39;s prime minister prompted concern among the country&#39;s neighbors
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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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The death toll from a democracy crackdown ordered by Myanmar's ruling junta was much greater than U.N. estimates and scores of people were still missing, activists just back from the reclusive country said on Friday.
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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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Myanmar security forces sealed off Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 200 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.