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		</div><p>Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar’s two largest cities have paid tribute to a young woman who died a day earlier after being shot by police during a rally against the military takeover.</p>
<p>An impromptu memorial created under an elevated roadway in Yangon attracted around 1,000 protesters.</p>
<p>A wreath of bright yellow flowers was hung beneath a photograph of Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, who was shot in the capital Naypyitaw on February 9, two days before her 20th birthday.</p>
<p>Her death on Friday, announced by her family, was the first confirmed fatality among thousands of protesters who have faced off against security forces since the military took power in a February 1 coup.</p>
<p>Protesters at the memorial chanted and held up signs that read “End the dictatorship in Myanmar” and “You will be remembered Mya Thwet Thwet Khine.”</p>
<p>The supporters also laid roses and rose petals on images of the woman.</p>
<p>Video from the day she was shot show her sheltering from water cannons and suddenly dropping to the ground after a bullet penetrated the motorcycle helmet she was wearing.</p>
<p>She had been on life support in hospital for more than a week with what doctors said was no chance of recovery.</p>
<p>US State Department spokesperson Ned Price offered his government’s condolences on Friday and reiterated calls on the military to refrain from violence against peaceful protesters.</p>
<p>In Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, a protest led by medical university students drew more than 1,000 people, many of whom also carried flowers and images of Mya Thwet Thwet Khine.</p>
<p>Others held signs saying “CDM”, referring to the nationwide civil disobedience movement that has encouraged doctors, engineers and others to protest against the coup by refusing to work.</p>
<p>Across the country, protests showed no signs of slowing down on Saturday despite recent crackdowns by the military government – including a sixth consecutive night in which the internet was cut for many hours.</p>
<p>Demonstrators also gathered elsewhere in Yangon, chanting and holding placards and images of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose democratically elected government was overthrown.</p>
<p>Aerial images taken on Friday showed streets in Yangon painted with the words “The military dictatorship must fall” in Burmese, and “We want democracy” and “Free our leaders” in English.</p>
<p>Security forces have been relatively restrained so far in confronting protesters in Yangon, but appeared to be toughening their stance in areas where there is less media presence.</p>
<p>Police used force for a second day on Friday to arrest protesters in Myitkyina, the capital of the remote northern state of Kachin.</p>
<p>The Kachin ethnic minority has long been in conflict with the central government, and there has been intermittent armed struggle against the army there for decades.</p>
<p>The junta seized power after detaining Ms Suu Kyi and preventing parliament from convening, saying elections in November were tainted by voting irregularities.</p>
<p>The election outcome, in which Ms Suu Kyi’s party won by a landslide, was affirmed by an election commission that has since been replaced by the military.</p>
<p>The junta says it will hold new elections in a year’s time.</p>
<p>The US, British and Canadian governments have imposed sanctions on the new military leaders, and they and other nations have called for Ms Suu Kyi’s administration to be restored.</p>
<p>The coup was a major setback to Myanmar’s transition to democracy after 50 years of army rule.</p>
<p>Ms Suu Kyi came to power after her National League for Democracy party won a 2015 election, but the generals retained substantial power under the constitution, which was adopted under a military regime.</p>
<p>The US, British and Canadian governments have imposed sanctions on the new military leaders, and they and other nations have called for Ms Suu Kyi’s administration to be restored.</p>
<p>The coup was a major setback to Myanmar’s transition to democracy after 50 years of army rule.</p>
<p>Ms Suu Kyi came to power after her National League for Democracy party won a 2015 election, but the generals retained substantial power under the constitution, which was adopted under a military regime.</p>
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