The government has ordered the 22nd Division troops to pull out of Karen state and return to Yangon,” Colonel Nerda Mya of the Karen National Union told the news agency. “We believe the troops will be used as in 1988.” (Source: New York Times)

The link between the clergy and the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, the beginnings of large-scale public participation in the marches and a call by some monks for a wider protest raised the stakes for the government. (Source: New York Times)

‘We want national reconciliation, we want dialogue with the military, we want freedom for Aung San Sun Kyi and other political prisoners,’ one protest leader cried into a microphone in Yangon, Myanmar’s main city. (Source: AFP)