About 5,000 Buddhist monks demonstrated against the military junta in Myanmar's largest city Sunday, cheered on by as many as 10,000 onlookers shouting support for detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Associated Press quoted witnesses as saying. The monks marched from the famous Shwedagon Pagoda to the nearby Sule Pagoda before passing the U.S. Embassy, witnesses said. As they walked, the crowd protected them by forming a human chain along the route. It was the sixth straight day monks have marched in Yangon, and came a day after they were allowed to march past Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Suu Kyi's compound in a symbolic gesture of support. Their activities have given new life to a protest movement that began a month ago after the government raised fuel prices.
