Timeline Of Saffron Revolution In Myanmar

Timeline Of Saffron Revolution In Myanmar In 2007

Aug 15: Myanmar`s military rulers slash fuel subsidies, sending   prices rising by as much as five fold.

Buses immediately double their fares.

Aug 19: Hundreds of people, led by former student activists,  march in Rangoon against the price hike.

Aug 21: Min Ko Naing, Nation`s  top democracy leader after Aung San Su Kyi , is arrested along with six other activists. At least 150 people are arrested in the following days.

Aug 28: Hundred of Buddhist Monks stage their first march in western Oil Town of Sittwe ( Akyab ).

Sept 5: Soldiers fire warning shots and pro-junta beats protesting monks.

Sept 6: Monks in Pakokku hold 20 Government Officers hostage in anger over the beating.

Sept 18: Thousands of monks march in Rangoon and other towns.

Sept 21: About 3,000 people march through Rangoon in the biggest protest . Su kyi is sent to jail.

Sept 22: Guards allow 2,000 people to pray outside Su kyi`s home, who came out to greet them.

Sept 23: 400 people led by monks ( 150-200) have been turned back at two different approaches

To Su Kyi`s home by the heavy security presence, including two lines of police with truck and fire engine

Standing  by.

Sept 24: 100,000 people led by hundreds of monks march in Oil City of Western Myanmar ( Arakan State) Rangoon, Mandalay, Banmour and other some cities in which the same happens.

Monks Union Sponsored by Junta splits two groups. And then on Monday ten of thousand of people Joined streams of Buddhist Monks on march through the Capital in the biggest demonstration against the ruling Generals since they crushed student-led protest in 1988.

Sept 25: 10,000 monks march through the heart of Myanmar main city on Tuesday in defiance of a threat by the ruling Generals to send troops to end the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years.

Sept 26: At least five persons ( protesters ) including 3 monks, were killed in Rangoon. (One monk was killed on the spot while two others were beaten to death , It is more death than estimation )

Sept 27: Anti-junta protests continue in Rangoon and Mandalay including Sittwe and Rambree.

Sept 28: Internet Access cut as satellite images show villages destroyed. In Rangoon , up to 10,000 demonstrators surge on the streets, playing deadly game of cat-and-mouse as they confront polices and soldiers.

Sept 29: Mr.Ibrahim Gambari flies into Rangoon via Singapure  and Sittwe and Taunkoug people and monks march through the city.

Sept 30: Inbrahim Gambari meets Su Kyi in Rangoon after he earlier held talk with Junta Leaders , Thein Sein and others ,and then went up to Nayphytaw to meet Than Shew.

Oct 1: Ibrahim Gambari was stalled and made to see pro-Government rally.

Oct 2: Gambari meets Than Shew and returns to Singapure.