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MONKS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN BURMA



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.