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(21 Sep 2012) Authorities in Myanmar have blocked people from rallying in the isolated capital Naypyitaw, but allowed hundreds to march through the country's main city Yangon on Friday in the city's biggest rally since soldiers crushed the so-called Saffron Revolution in 2007.
In both cases, authorities had refused to grant permits to people marking the International Day of Peace.
But police did nothing to stop the procession in Yangon, which started at City Hall and snaked several kilometres (miles) through the city.
Earlier in the day, police refused to let about 100 people board buses for the capital, Naypyitaw.
A line of officers was on hand to stop their buses leaving.
The protestors complied without resistance.
It would have been the first demonstration ever in the city which is mainly home to government ministers and civil servants.
They gave no explanation for withholding a permit, telling the group to disperse or face legal action.
The procession in Yangon aimed to highlight the ongoing conflict in Kachin state, between the army and ethnic rebels.
A ceasefire that had lasted since 1994 broke down more than a year ago.
The Yangon rally was the city's largest since 2007, when Buddhist monks led pro-democracy demonstrations that were brutally crushed by the former ruling military regime.

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