Saffron Revolution
n.— «Twenty thousand people, including nuns, monks and ordinary Burmese, marched through the streets of Rangoon yesterday demanding freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate, in a dramatic escalation of the country’s Buddhist-led “Saffron Revolution.”» —“Nuns join monks in Burma’s Saffron Revolution” by Richard Lloyd Parry Times (London, England) Sept. 25, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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