Burmese Junta Admits Rangoon Protest Death

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Shots and tear gas were fired into crowds of demonstrators yesterday as Burma's antigovernment protests turned ugly.

Troops dragged away hundreds of defiant Buddhist monks in trucks - the first mass arrests since protests erupted last month.

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Burmese Junta Admits Rangoon Protest Death

One dissident radio station, the Democratic Voice of Burma, claimed a monk was killed and several injured in clashes in Rangoon, a claim later admitted by the ruling junta.

"The troops opened fire into the crowd,...

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