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MONKS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN BURMA
- Subject: MONKS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN BURMA
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 15:29:00
Subject: MONKS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN BURMA TOWN 6/4
Monks take to the streets in Myanmar town
BANGKOK -- Hundreds of Myanmar monks armed with wooden sticks
and batons are shown in this exclusive picture carried by
Thailand's The
Nation newspaper yesterday as they marched through the centre of
Pegu, about 60 km north east of Yangon, late last month. The monks
were reported to have later damaged a mosque in the town. Some of
them clambered up the minarets and ransacked property inside, the
newspaper said.
Security had been stepped up in Yangon and other major towns after
religious tensions erupted in the country about three weeks
ago, with
groups of Buddhist monks reportedly damaging mosques and
destroying
property belonging to Muslims.