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Protests Persist in Myanmar, Despite Arrests by Junta

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

A crackdown by the ruling military junta is failing to stop an apparently spontaneous wave of protests - triggered by a sharp increase in fuel prices, and sustained in part by photos and video transmitted over the Internet.

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