Buddhist Nuns Join Protests -- 20,000 Show Support for Suu Kyi

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YANGON, Myanmar - About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

At one point a small crowd of about 400 - about half of them monks - split off from the main demonstration and tried unsuccessfully to approach the home where Suu Kyi is under house arrest. The monks carried a large yellow banner that read: "Love and kindness must win over everything."

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Buddhist Nuns Join Protests -- 20,000 Show Support for Suu Kyi

The march raised both expectations of possible political change and fear that the military might try to crush the dem...

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