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Women Arrested for Holding Buddhist Prayer Services for Suu Kyi

By THE IRRAWADDY, November 12, 2009

Rangoon, Burma -- Rangoon special branch police have arrested Naw Ohn Hla and three other women who regularly hold Buddhist prayer services for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and charged them in a special court in Insein Prison.

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Junta's Online Warning To Buddhist Monks

by Terry Evans, Originally from Scoop New Zealand, The Buddhist Channel, 21 October 2009

Rangoon, Burma -- A military government website, “Kyaymon” [meaning “the mirror”], which operates as an online daily newspaper in Burmese has criticised two well-known Buddhist monks’ organisations and warned that the Burmese military authorities will take action against them.

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Monks’ Struggle Continues Behind Bars

By WAI MOE, The Irrawaddy, September 26, 2009

Rangoon, Burma -- Two years after the Saffron Revolution, Burma’s ruling regime is showing no signs of relenting in its efforts to suppress dissent among the country’s 400,000 Buddhist monks.

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Myanmar's monks under close watch

By Joel Chong, Asia Times, Sep 24, 2009

BANGKOK, Thailand -- "I'm being watched all the time. I am considered an organizer. Between noon and 2 pm, I am allowed to go out of the monastery. But then I'm followed," Buddhist monk U Manita said, referring to stepped up government repression of the Buddhist clergy in Myanmar. "We don't want this junta. And that's what everyone at my monastery thinks as well."

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Burmese monks key to democracy process: rights group

Radio Australia, September 16, 2009

Sydney, Australia -- Human Rights Watch says the US government is moving too slowly in announcing its new policy on Burma, with the delay giving the regime in Rangoon too much space.

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