MYANMAR (BURMA): MORE THAN 100, 000 ON YANGON'S STREETS

(AGI) - Yangon, 24th September - The space of a few hours has seen the development of the most impressive protest demonstration to be organised in Yangon over the past five weeks of resistance to the ruling military junta in Myanmar.

According to eye-witness reports, more than one hundred thousand people filled the streets of the Burmese capital, led as ever by Buddhist monks, who have defied the ban imposed on their returning to the streets by their ecclesiastical hierarchy - under the control of the regime - which insisted they return to their monasteries. (AGI)