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Witnesses say more than 100 chanting monks in northern Burma are marching for the first time since a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. The monks, in the town of Pakokku, did not shout slogans or make political statements as they marched for about an hour. The town was the scene of some of the monk-led pro-democracy protests that were stamped out after troops opened fire on demonstrators during the September 26-27 crackdown. The monks started their march at Shwegu Pagoda in Pakokku, a centre for Buddhist learning with more than 80 monasteries about 630km northwest of the country's commercial centre of Rangoon. They marched for nearly one hour chatting Buddhist prayers without incident, and then returned to the respective monasteries, two monks said in telephone interviews.
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YANGON, Myanmar - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in northern Myanmar for nearly an hour Wednesday, in the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters, several monks said.The monks in Pakokku shouted no slogans, but one monk told the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based short-wave radio station and Web site run by dissident journalists, that it was a continuation of the protests last month."We walked around the town and chanted. ... We are continuing our protest from last month as we have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for," the monk told the radio station."Our demands are for lower commodity prices, national reconciliation and immediate release of (pro-democracy leader) Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political prisoners," said the monk, who was not identified by name.He said they had little time to organize the march so it was small, but "there will be more organized and bigger protests soon."Up to 100,000 people took part in demonstrations in Yangon last month that were crushed when troops fired on protesters Sept.
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