Warning shots at protest From: Birmingham Mail | Date: September 26, 2007 | Copyright 2007 Birmingham Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

POLICE in riot gear fired warning shots today to disperse more than 100 Buddhist monks who defied the Burmese military government's ban on public assembly.

Officers brandished semi-automatic guns as they tried to break through a barricade blocking Rangoon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda.

The junta had banned all public gatherings of more than five people and imposed a night-time curfew following eight days of anti- government marches led by monks ...

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