Monks march again in Burma

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.

The monks in the town of Pakokku did not shout slogans or make political statements, but the town was the scene of some of the pro-democracy protests led by monks last month that were stamped out after troops opened fire on demonstrators during the September 26-27 crackdown.