Singapore on Monday said it was “concerned” over the protests in Myanmar and hoped the situation would be resolved peacefully.

“Singapore is concerned over the latest developments in Myanmar and is monitoring the situation closely,” the ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.

“We hope that the ongoing protests will be resolved in a peaceful manner.”

Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and their supporters marched in Yangon on Monday, piling the pressure on Myanmar’s ruling military junta in the biggest show of dissent in nearly two decades.

At least 30,000 people led by about 15,000 monks clad in orange and rust-red robes swarmed through the streets of downtown Yangon, Myanmar’s main city.

It was the largest protest in Myanmar since a 1988 democracy uprising that was led by students but brutally put down by the military, killing hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters.