Police fire warning shots in Myanmar after monks defy ban

Thursday, September 27, 2007

YANGON, Myanmar -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon on Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly.

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