Myanmar Monks March

Myanmar soldiers take position in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. About 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered in the city Thursday despite a violent crackdown by security forces that drew international appeals for restraint by Myanmar's ruling junta.

Protesters' sandals are scattered on the ground as soldiers look on after firing automatic weapons into a crowd in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Soldiers fired on the crowd of anti-government demonstrators as tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters braved a crackdown that has drawn international appeals for restraint by the ruling military junta. Several people were reportedly killed.

Blood-soaked sandals are shown on a street following a shooting by soldiers during a protest in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007.

Buddhist monks pray at a riot police roadblock in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. About 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered again in Yangon on Thursday despite a violent crackdown by security forces that drew international appeals for restraint by Myanmar's ruling junta.

Buddhist monks stand in front of riot police as they demonstrate in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday Sept. 26, 2007. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas into swollen crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's biggest city Wednesday, while hauling away defiant Buddhist monks into waiting trucks, the first mass arrests since protests in this military dictatorship erupted last month.

A Buddhist monk walks past a motorcycle which was burned in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling militant Buddhist monks away in trucks Wednesday as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly.

Myanmar Red Cross workers treat a monk after security forces attempted to disperse protesters in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas into massive crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's biggest city Wednesday, while hauling away defiant Buddhist monks into waiting trucks, the first mass arrests since protests in this military dictatorship erupted last month.

Buddhist monks protest against the military junta in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. The orange-robed monks, cheered on by supporters, marched out from Yangon's soaring Shwedagon Pagoda, while hundreds more staged a similar show of defiance in the country's second largest city of Mandalay.

Buddhist monks march down a street in protest in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. About 10,000 monks led a growing crowd of supporters from the golden Shwedagon Pagoda beneath the scorching tropical sun, marching through downtown and gathering near the Yangon city hall.

Young novice Buddhist monks join in a march in Yangon, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the anti-government protests.

Buddhist nuns march down a street in downtown Yangon, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the anti-government protests. In another day of public defiance against the generals and their iron grip on the country, some 30,000 monks dressed in saffron and red robes, followed by about 70,000 supporters, surrounded the Sule Pagoda and nearby city hall.

Buddhist monks receive treatment for injuries from walking barefoot in the streets from supporters, as they gather and march in downtown Yangon, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the protests.

Supporters of the protesting Buddhist monks gather in downtown Yangon, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the anti-government protests.

Supporters of the Buddhist monks march down a street in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007.

Buddhist monks march down a street in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007.

A Buddhist monk uses a megaphone as thousands march in protest in Yangon, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the anti-government protests.

Buddhist monks march during a protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. As many as 100,000 anti-government demonstrators led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to stage a political protest in Myanmar since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.

Buddhist monks march in protest in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, in the strongest show of dissent against ruling generals in nearly two decades. More than 100,000 people flooded the streets of Yangon in two major marches that snaked their way through the nation's commercial capital, led by robed monks chanting prayers of peace and compassion.

Buddhist monks march in protest in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, in the strongest show of dissent against the ruling generals in nearly two decades.

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