Huge anti-government march

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Led by a huge contingent of Buddhist Monks, the largest crowd since a failed 1988 pro-democracy uprising has marched through the heart of Myanmar's (mee-an-MAHRZ') capital.

The crowd swelled to as many as 100,000 after anti-government demonstrators began their march at the country's most sacred shrine and wound through the streets of Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon. Some 20,000 monks took the lead, with onlookers joining in on what had been billed as a day of general protest in the country once known as Burma.

At one point, the march passed by the old campus of Rangoon University, a hotbed of protest in past times. Students were seen joining in.

The 1988 uprising was brutally crushed by the military.