Federal officials have arrested three protesters who attempted to scale the front of the Burmese embassy in Washington to hang a banner critical of the country's military government.
U.S. Secret Service officers said the three women were arrested Thursday for "unlawful entry" at Burma's embassy. Officials say they had climbed a ladder to the embassy's second floor balcony, where they attempted to unfurl a banner reading "Expel the Ambassador Now."
The three were part of some 70 activists who gathered outside the embassy to mark Friday's 15th anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in Burma. The uprising was crushed by Burmese military forces and thousands of people were thought to have been killed.
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