100,000 take to the streets in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow
Ian MacKinnon, south-east Asia correspondent
Tuesday September 25, 2007
Guardian
Burma’s military rulers last night threatened to “take action’ after up to 100,000 demonstrators protesting against the regime flooded the streets of Rangoon in the biggest show of dissent in almost two decades.
Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and pink-robed nuns led the marchers who snaked for nearly a mile through the former capital, one of several marches that slowed traffic to a crawl and prompted the closure of shops and schools. Read the rest of this entry »
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