About 50,000 people joined a pro-government rally in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon on Saturday morning. The mass protest was orchestrated by the local government as an answer to last month's unrest that left at least 10 people dead after the military cracked down on the Buddhist monks and the demonstrators joining them.

The people attending the rally staged at the Thuwanna Sports Field in Yangon shouted slogans against the rebellion led by the monks and expressed their desire for the restoration of "peace and security". The crowd also called on international organizations and governments to stop interfering in “their” country’s affairs.

The theatrical demonstration follows the protest of the monk-led crowd that reached its climax on September 24 and 25 with more than 100,000 people on the streets demanding a political and economical change in their country.

The September 26 to 27 army crackdown on the protesters marching on the streets of Yangon ended with the death of 10 and the detaining of about 2,000 (figures released by the local authorities). As other sources indicated, the actual death toll of the crackdown was closer to 200 and the arrests are still taking place, many of them being followed by torture.

The unrest has drawn international condemnation on the country’s military regime, which seized power in Myanmar in 1962.

The UN Security Council issued a statement on Thursday expressing its strong disapproval of the Myanmar military government's repression of pro-democracy demonstrators.

About a week ago, Myanmar's military supreme Senior General Than Shwe received the UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, but there is little hope that the junta will give up its unlimited power over the country any time soon.

Pressured by the situation, the Senior General also agreed to initiate a dialog with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been living under house arrest for more than 10 years, but only if she renounces to support the western sanctions against Myanmar’s current regime.

The military regime issued a statement on Friday night in which the UN Security Council's statement was labeled as "deplorable."

"At any costs Myanmar will continue implementing the seven-step road map to democracy in keeping with the wishes of the people," said the statement.

The seven-step road map, a government’s solution to bring democracy to Myanmar, is a process that consists of drafting a new constitution, holding a referendum and eventually staging a general election. Such a process will take years to be implemented, just enough for the junta to keep and strengthen its rule.