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Burma’s Monks Won’t Go Away

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Sep 22, 2007
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With unrest in Burma entering its fifth week, the country’s Buddhist monks are making the disturbances the most serious since the bloody 1988 crackdown on a democracy uprising that resulted in thousands of deaths and kept the population cowed for a generation.

At this point, according to analysts, the country’s widely despised State Peace and Development…

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