Sunday - September 23, 2007

Continuing Protest in Myanmar

 The Buddhist monks of Myanmar staged more protests against the military dictatorship on Sunday.

At least 5,000 monks and nuns, applauded by thousands of onlookers, marched in Yangon on Sunday, the largest demonstration yet in Myanmar in a rare wave of protests against the ruling generals.

A day after a dramatic appearance of support for the marchers by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, monks prayed at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutly Buddhist Myanmar's holiest shrine, then marched through the city.

About 100 nuns joined one band of more than 2,000 monks, then marched to the centre of the former capital.

It was one of five protest marches by monks in the city and there were at least two in Mandalay, a major centre of the monkhood, ahead of a quarterly summit of the generals who have ruled the former Burma for 45 years. Read more...

Author: The Machiavellian
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