Conflicts / Tags / Yangon

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 1:57pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Myanmar's military rulers have deployed soldiers and riot police around at least six big monasteries in the commercial capital, Yangon, setting the stage for a showdown with determined pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds more security forces were waiti.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- Some 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military. As the m.. Read More