A Buddhist monk involved in the September protests in Burma has called on the world community to stop supporting, recognizing and selling arms to the military-run Burmese government. As VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins reports, U Awbata made his appeal at an international human rights conference on Burma in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

Official information showed that at least 15 people were killed in Burma's biggest city when September's pro-democracy demonstrations were crushed by the military.

Monks in a small town in central Burma have defied the military junta to stage a peaceful march. It is the first public gathering of monks since September's brutal crackdown against the monk-led protests.

About 100 Buddhist monks marched in central Burma for the first time since the junta's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last month, witnesses said.

Monks fleeing the military crackdown in Burma say they are regrouping in preparation for more peaceful demonstrations. Many of those monks are going across the border to Thailand where they are gathering support and resources to continue their struggle.

Main Burmese Opposition Party, the National League for Democracy, has rejected any conditions for talks between its detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military government.

Last month, Burma's military government crushed peaceful demonstrations calling for political reforms by ordering troops to fire on protesters. Troops also raided monasteries and took into detention hundreds, possibly thousands of the Buddhist monks who had led the protests. Scores of monks, however, have fled through rugged jungles to cross the border into Thailand.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the strength of Burmese people for their right in restoration of democracy in Myanmar,has achieved a global political phenomenon after Nelson Mandela and Mahatama Gandhi for propounding their peaceful fight against the regime in their country for people right.

Long-standing human rights concerns in Myanmar, Amnesty International believes that it would be a positive contribution to the UN's consideration of Myanmar, if the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, were to visit the country.

Junta chief Than Shwe, 74, hated Suu Kyi so much that he has banned a word about her in his presence.General has now decided to seek a reconciliation and her name has been on everyone's lips in Yangon for weeks.A protest for hike in fuel has fueled en mass emergence of pro democracy movements for which most Burmese crave for.