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Myanmar : 5,000 monks protest Military Rule

by Barry Artiste | September 24, 2007 at 07:34 am

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Most likely the most unoffensive group of religious orders in the world, some (National Geographic Historical Accounts) who say the Buddist Monk Order in India found Jesus wandering their land and cared for him till his end of days after his reported Resurrection versus the Biblical theory of rising from the dead, are faced with an ongoing persecution for decades from China to other countries which deem Buddism a threat to a way of life of what many to know as peaceful and non aggressive. Buddism , much like the Burmese Monks are most likely the only religion past and present that does not have one iota of a violent history associated with it's order.

YANGON - At least 5,000 monks and nuns, applauded by more than 10,000 onlookers, marched in Yangon yesterday in the largest demonstration yet in Myanmar in a rare wave of protests against the ruling generals.

A day after a dramatic appearance of support for the marchers by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, monks prayed at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutly Buddhist Myanmar's holiest shrine, then marched through the city in the largest show of public dissent in more than two decades.

About 100 nuns joined one band of more than 2,000 monks, then marched to the centre of the former capital.