SNAPSHOT: Latest developments in Myanmar protests

Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:00pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Here are the latest developments in the pro-democracy protests in Myanmar on Thursday.

HEADLINES

* U.S. President George W. Bush appeals to China to pressure Myanmar after soldiers and police fire into crowds of demonstrators in its largest city.

* Nine protesters killed, 11 wounded in Yangon, state television says. Among those killed is a Japanese photographer.

* The association of Southeast Asian Nations voices "revulsion" at the killings, in unusually blunt language.

* Myanmar government agrees to receive a United Nations envoy to discuss the crisis.

* U.S. Treasury imposes sanctions on 14 senior Myanmar government officials.

* China, one of Myanmar's few allies, calls for restraint for the first time.

* Monks rounded up and shoved onto trucks in raids on monasteries. One monk killed; scores kicked and beaten by soldiers.  Continued...

 

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