More than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in northern Burma for nearly an hour this morning, in the first such march since the government’s deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy demonstrations, two monks said.

Hundreds of Buddhist monks protested today outside the locked gates of Burma’s most revered temple, challenging the country’s military rulers in the most sustained wave of demonstrations in a decade.

More than 400 Buddhist monks today marched in Burma’s largest city, witnesses said, as part of a growing wave of anti-government protests that have rocked the country the past month.