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BBC-Burmese police break up anti-go



World: Asia-Pacific

             Burmese police break up
             anti-government protest 



             Riot police have broken up a pro-democracy
             demonstration in the centre of the Burmese capital,
             Rangoon. 

             They dispersed over two hundred protestors who had
             shouted anti-government slogans and distributed
             pro-democracy leaflets at a traffic intersection near
             Rangoon University. 

             The protest, which ended peacefully, was the first street
             demonstration against military rule in Burma for nearly
             two years. 

             It occurred amid rising concern for the health of Burmese
             opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is spending a
             thirteenth day in a van near the capital in protest against
             travel restrictions imposed on her by the military
             authorities. 

             From the newsroom of the BBC World Service