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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

BBC: Burmese monks defy army warning

Several thousand monks and civilians in Burma's main city Rangoon have defied military orders and begun fresh anti-government protests.

Protesters left the revered Shwedagon pagoda, where army trucks were parked, to march through the streets.

Earlier lorries with loudspeakers warned residents that the protests could be "dispersed by military force".

On Monday, there were protests in at least 25 towns, with tens of thousands of people marching in Rangoon...

 

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