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NEWS ABOUT: Burma

Burma stories: 165 news summaries

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Monks Lead Largest Protest Yet

Tens of thousands fill streets as fears of crackdown grow

Sep 24, 07 6:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Protests by Buddhist monks in Myanmar continue to surge, with today's the largest against the ruling military junta in 20 years, Reuters reports. Tens of thousands of monks and residents packed the streets of Yangon and other cities. So far, military leaders have been quiet, but fears are growing of... More »

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Burma • Buddhist monks • Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese Protest Swells to 20K

Citizens join monks and nuns in anti-government rallies in Rangoon

Sep 23, 07 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Buddhist monks and nuns are at the helm of Burma's 'largest' anti-government protest since the failed student uprising in 1988. An estimated 20,000 took to the streets today in the seventh day of demonstrations for lower prices, an end to the ruling military junta, and release of political prisoners.... More »

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Burma • Buddhist monks • Aung San Suu Kyi • Ragoon • Burma protest • Buddhist nuns

Burmese Monks Take to Streets

Vow to see military government 'wiped from the land'

Sep 21, 07 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Buddhist monks are protesting in the streets of Burma, and they’ll continue to do so until they’ve “wiped the military dictatorship from the land,” their leaders said today. This is the first time the monks have explicitly challenged the government, the BBC reports, and... More »

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protests • Burma • Buddhist monks

Monks Hold Burmese Officials Hostage

Incident ends in release as protests of fuel price hikes rage

Sep 7, 07 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of angry monks have released Burmese government officials they held hostage for over 5 hours yesterday, the Guardian reports, in protest of the military regime’s fuel price hikes. Reading Buddhist scriptures, nearly 500 monks burned the officials’ cars, locked them inside a monastery, and surrendered the prisoners... More »

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Asia • Burma • Buddhist monks • Buddhism • monks • hostage

First Lady Prods UN Head on Burma Policy

Laura Bush urges tougher stance on crackdown on protests

Sep 6, 07 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - As part of her ongoing campaign to raise awareness about strife in military-led Burma, Laura Bush called on the UN to condemn recent arrests of political dissidents. The first lady made her passion clear with a phone call to Secretary General Ban Ki Moon last week, in which she called... More »

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United Nations • Laura Bush • international relations • Burma • Ban Ki-Moon

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