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  • 10,000 Myanmar monks protest in Mandalay (anti-government protests getting larger and larger!)

    09/22/2007 1:17:18 AM PDT · by Wiz · 21 replies · 416+ views
    YANGON, Myanmar - About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988. Monks from various monasteries started their march in Mandalay — a hotbed for activist monks — while about 1,000 Buddhist monks began marching from Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda, the country's most revered shrine and a historic center for protest movements. From there, witnesses said, they planned to march to downtown Yangon, which is the nation's largest city. It was the fifth straight day the monks...