Burma: The crowd grows, and the Buddhist nuns join in

Yesterday's events in Rangoon, where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was permitted to emerge from her home and greet the protesting monks, has drawn quite a bit of coverage in the international press. Consensus seems to be that the junta is waiting for these protests to die down on their own. We'll see how that works out, as the monks seem to be in it for the long haul.

Another day of peaceful protest in Rangoon and other population centers saw two notable developments:

1. The protests became significanly larger, with Buddhist nuns joining the monks and some regular folks in marches.
2. For the first time, the monks called their protests an "uprising".

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