Police have cracked down on students and other activists opposing Myanmar's new education law, charging protesters with batons and dragging them into trucks at a landmark pagoda in the heart of ...

At Sule Pagoda, in the center of the city, security forces opened fire after thousands defied the military's warnings and packed the area in front of the pagoda next to city hall.

The government said security forces opened fire after the crowd of 10,000 people, including "so-called monks," failed to disperse at Yangon's Sule Pagoda. It said the police used minimum force.

Near Sule Pagoda, trucks are jeered and pelted with rocks, and the soldiers again open fire over the protesters’ heads. But as dusk approaches, the crowds disperse.

A crowd of hundreds appears gathered between the Sule Pagoda, Maha Bandula Park, and City Hall. More than a dozen large vehicles, which appear to be army trucks and police water cannons, block the ...

Protesters filled the streets and pedestrian bridges near Sule Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday.Credit... Supported by Photographs by The New York Times Text by Richard C. Paddock The mood on ...

A group of residents of Yangon enjoy the cool of the evening near the Sule Pagoda. Andrea Frazzetta Young woman in traditional clothes poses in the photo stand at the Full Moon Festival.

Riot police and soldiers are beating monks and other protesters at the east gate of Shwedagon Pagoda. They are starting a crackdown by all means. Police forces are stationed at Sule Pagoda as well.

The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography ...

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Burma's Buddhist monks have all but vanished. Those that have not been rounded up can only look on helplessly as the junta's generals take control. Rosalind Russell and Peter Popham report ...