At first, the monks limited themselves to chanting prayers and sermons, and urged the Burmese public not to join their marches. But over the weekend, a hitherto unknown group, the All Burma Monks' Alliance, urged people to “struggle peacefully against the evil military dictatorship” until its downfall. Monday's march was joined by some of the country's best-known actors and musicians, as well as leaders of the opposition National League of Democracy (NLD) and crowds of ordinary Burmese. It has become the biggest challenge Myanmar's brutal regime has faced since the uprising of 1988, which it crushed with extreme violence. The question is: how will it respond this time? Later on Monday, state-run media quoted the government as threatening the monks with unspecified action "according to the law" if their protests did not stop.

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