LETPADAN: Student protesters calling for education reform defied an order to disperse in a tense standoff with hundreds of riot police in central Myanmar.
Some 200 young activists – many sporting bandanas with the fighting peacock symbol of student protest – chanted “we are unified!” as they maintained a sit-in at a monastery compound in the town of Letpadan. The group, which has been joined by around a dozen monks, has been tightly encircled by security forces since Monday.
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