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rotesters hit the streets across Myanmar on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of 1962 student protests against the country's first junta, vowing defiance against its latest incarnation more than five months after it seized power.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February, with pro-democracy protests met by a brutal military crackdown that has killed more than 880, according to a local monitoring group.
The economy is in freefall with thousands of civil servants and doctors on strike and coronavirus cases in the impoverished country spiking.
Around one hundred protesters moved quickly through the commercial capital Yangon early Wednesday, AFP reporters said, to mark the 1962 Yangon university protests against the first imposition of military rule in Myanmar.
Hundreds were killed by troops and thousands disappeared in a brutal crackdown many see being repeated almost seven decades later.
"Let's root out the fascist army," they chanted, as some let off smoke bombs in orange and blue.
"Keep the spirit of July 7 and fight the military dictatorship."
