Over 100 monks stage protest march in Myanmar

Source: AFP

YANGON (AFP) - More than 100 Buddhist monks on Thursday marched in the rain in Yangon under tight security in the third straight day of protests against Myanmar's military junta.

The monks arrived at the Shwedagon Pagoda after marching past the headquarters of the opposition National League for Democracy, eyewitnesses said, and were allowed to enter the temple for the first time in three days.

Shwedagon Pagoda was surrounded by dozens of plainclothes security officials, and a few hundred people gathered outside to watch the monks' peaceful protest.

The march was the latest series of protests against the regime.



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It comes like a great movie shot. Monks marching silently in the rain...Something Bertolucci would shoot finely.
The first paragraph is really powerful.
Go on, go on, go on.