Global protesters march against Myanmar junta
Sunday, 7 October 2007
LONDON, OCT 7 (AP): Thousands of demonstrators in cities across Europe and Asia joined in protests against the military junta in Myanmar after the regime acknowledged detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks who had led huge protests.
While sympathisers from typhoon-wracked Taipei to London chanted and waved placards, activists in Myanmar slipped quietly underground to hold candlelight prayer vigils for those killed and arrested in the ruling junta's brutal suppression of their uprising.
Hoping to send Myanmar's ruling military generals a message that "the world is still watching," rights group Amnesty International organised Saturday's marches in more than two dozen Asian, European and North American cities.
While sympathisers from typhoon-wracked Taipei to London chanted and waved placards, activists in Myanmar slipped quietly underground to hold candlelight prayer vigils for those killed and arrested in the ruling junta's brutal suppression of their uprising.
Hoping to send Myanmar's ruling military generals a message that "the world is still watching," rights group Amnesty International organised Saturday's marches in more than two dozen Asian, European and North American cities.