100,000 monks/citizens protest military junta in Myanmar

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"BANGKOK -- Savvy young bloggers in Myanmar are breaking through the military junta's tight Internet controls to post photos and videos of swelling anti-government protests, experts said Tuesday.

The government blocks almost every website that carries news or information about the Southeast Asian country, and even bars access to web-based email. But an army of young techies in Yangon works around the clock to circumvent the censors, posting pictures and videos on blogs almost as soon as the protests happen."







"Several thousand Burmese monks and other protesters have begun new marches in Rangoon despite a bloody crackdown by police at the city's holiest shrine. Police beat and arrested demonstrators at Shwedagon Pagoda and warning shots were fired at another site as a ninth day of marching got under way. One march started for the city centre while another headed for the home of opposition head Aung San Suu Kyi. Police and troops are surrounding key Buddhist sites around the city. Analysts fear a repeat of the violence in 1988, when troops opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing thousands."

"Burmese military junta on Tuesday bans gathering of more than five people in a place and declares curfew in two major cities Rangoon and Mandalay, according to a police source in Rangoon.

Under the new restriction, which is announced late Tuesday, the authorities will declare unlawful association if more than five people gathers in a group and that will empower the authorities to arrest the protestors or at the least they be taken for interrogation, the source told Mizzima."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar...nomic_protests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi