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'''Saffron Revolution''' is a term used{{by whom|date=February 2017}} to describe a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in [[Myanmar]]. The protests were triggered by the decision of the national military government to remove subsidies on the sales prices of fuel. The national government is the only supplier of fuels and the removal of the price subsidy immediately caused diesel and petrol prices to increase by 66%--100% and the price of [[compressed natural gas]] for buses to increase 500% in less than a week.<ref name="August, 2007 Burma">{{cite web|title=Human Rights Concern |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/myanmar-burma/page.do?id=1011205 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217100821/http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/myanmar-burma/page.do?id=1011205 |archivedate=17 February 2009 |deadurl=no |accessdate=7 April 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="Fuel">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6947251.stm |title=BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Burma leaders double fuel prices |publisher=news.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> |
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'''Saffron Revolution''' is a term used{{by whom|date=February 2017}} to describe a revolutionary series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in [[Myanmar]]. The protests were triggered by the decision of the national military government to remove subsidies on the sales prices of fuel. The national government is the only supplier of fuels and the removal of the price subsidy immediately caused diesel and petrol prices to increase by 66%--100% and the price of [[compressed natural gas]] for buses to increase 500% in less than a week.<ref name="August, 2007 Burma">{{cite web|title=Human Rights Concern |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/myanmar-burma/page.do?id=1011205 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217100821/http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/myanmar-burma/page.do?id=1011205 |archivedate=17 February 2009 |deadurl=no |accessdate=7 April 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="Fuel">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6947251.stm |title=BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Burma leaders double fuel prices |publisher=news.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2015}}</ref> |
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The various protests were led by students, political activists, including women, and Buddhist monks and took the form of a campaign of [[nonviolent resistance]], sometimes also called [[civil resistance]].<ref>Christina Fink, "The Moment of the Monks: Burma, 2007", in [[Adam Roberts (scholar)|Adam Roberts]] and [[Timothy Garton Ash]] (eds.), ''Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present'', Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-955201-6}}, pp. 354–370. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BxOQKrCe7UUC&dq=Civil+resistance+and+power+politics&source=gbs_navlinks_s]</ref> |
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The various protests were led by students, political activists, including women, and Buddhist monks and took the form of a campaign of [[nonviolent resistance]], sometimes also called [[civil resistance]].<ref>Christina Fink, "The Moment of the Monks: Burma, 2007", in [[Adam Roberts (scholar)|Adam Roberts]] and [[Timothy Garton Ash]] (eds.), ''Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present'', Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-955201-6}}, pp. 354–370. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BxOQKrCe7UUC&dq=Civil+resistance+and+power+politics&source=gbs_navlinks_s]</ref> |