More than 100,000 Buddhist monks and supporters marched for an eighth straight day in Myanmar Tuesday as the country's military regime mobilized troops in an effort to quell the mass demonstration, The Associated Press reported.
"The protest is not merely for the well-being of people but also for monks struggling for democracy and for people to have an opportunity to determine their own future," an anonymous monk told the AP.
Among the army divisions dispatched to the cities of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Mandalay where the protests are occurring is the 22nd, which took part in suppressing a 1988 uprising that killed thousands of peaceful protesters.
In a speech to the United Nations, President Bush outlined stricter sanctions against the military regime, including restrictions on visas for officials responsible for certain human rights violations, The New York Times reported. "Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma, where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear," the president said, according to the Times.
The military junta changed the English name of the country to Myanmar from Burma, but many Western governments still call the nation Burma.
-PATRICIO CHILE
