Several thousand Burmese monks and other protesters are marching in Rangoon despite a bloody crackdown by police. One death is reported.
Police beat and arrested demonstrators at the revered Shwedagon Pagoda, including up to 100 monks, on the ninth day of unrest against military rule.
One march started for the city centre while another headed for the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Security forces have reportedly ringed six key monasteries.
One unidentified person was shot dead and five received gunshot injuries, Rangoon hospital sources told Reuters news agency.
A Norway-based dissident radio station, the Democratic Voice of Burma, said one monk was killed and several injured in clashes in the city centre.
Analysts fear a repeat of the violence in 1988, when troops opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing thousands.
Anger is growing among the protesters over the treatment of the monks, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, reports.
