MYANMAR (BURMA): TEAR GAS USED ON MONKS, DOZENS ARRESTED

(AGI) - Yangon, 26 September - Dozens of monks have been roughed up by security forces in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, one of the nerve centres of the protests of recent days. It comes in a renewed attempt by the military government, which has ruled Myanmar (former Burma) with an iron fist for the past forty years, to quash a re-start to the protest marching. Teargas was also used by police in Yangon.

Eye-witnesses speak of 80 arrests.