"Students and their supporters in Myanmar have staged a sit-in and threatened to go on a hunger strike as police block them from continuing a march to the commercial capital Yangon, protesting the country?s controversial education law, the leader of a student federation said. The students undertook the action on Tuesday, after riot police outside a monastery in the town of Letpadan, about 140 kilometers (86 miles) north of Yangon, formed a human chain around 150 protestors, while their supporters and parents in major cities urged authorities to avoid a violent crackdown on the students. Police had given the students a 4 p.m. deadline to disperse before they took action against them, but it passed without incident. ?We have asked the authorities to let us march to Tharawaddy,” Kyaw Ko Ko, president of the All Burma Federation of Students Union, said, referring to the district of the Bago Division in lower Myanmar. ?We will [then] go to Yangon by cars and will go home from Yangon. If they don?t let us do it, we will sit here and go on a hunger strike. If they attack or crack down us, we won?t respond.”..."