Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against MyanmarÂ’s ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches. About 100 nuns joined more than 2,000 monks to pray at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, devoutly Buddhist MyanmarÂ’s holiest shrine, before marching to the centre of the former capital. It was one of three protest marches by monks in the city and there were at least two in Mandalay, a major centre of the monkhood, but there were no signs of trouble. Plainclothed police kept watch, but there were no uniformed officers or soldiers in sight and people on the streets applauded as the marchers passed. The mood was cheerful, with many people in Yangon seeing the emergence of Suu Kyi from her lakeside villa as a sign the military was being flexible.