Protesters continue to defy military rulers in Myanmar

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar&comma; adept at finding themes to tie together protests nationwide&comma; took to the streets on Sunday holding painted eggs in a nod to Easter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the biggest city of Yangon&comma; one group marched through the Insein district chanting and singing protest songs and cradling eggs bearing the slogan &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Spring Revolution”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many of the eggs also bore a drawing of the three-fingered salute&comma; a symbol of resistance to the February 1 coup&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar&comma; adept at finding themes to tie together protests nationwide&comma; took to the streets on Sunday holding painted eggs in a nod to Easter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the biggest city of Yangon&comma; one group marched through the Insein district chanting and singing protest songs and cradling eggs bearing the slogan &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Spring Revolution”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many of the eggs also bore a drawing of the three-fingered salute&comma; a symbol of resistance to the February 1 coup&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Mandalay&comma; the country’s second largest city&comma; protesters gathered at dawn on motorbikes to shout their defiance of the power grab that overthrew the democratically elected government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Myanmar’s military has violently cracked down on protesters and others in opposition&comma; with the latest civilian death toll since the coup at 557&comma; according to the independent Assistance Association for Political Prisoners&period; More than 2&comma;750 have been detained or sentenced&comma; the group said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Sunday&comma; security forces opened fire on a crowd of protesters in Pyinmana in central Myanmar&comma; killing at least one person&comma; local news outlet Khit Thit Media reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pope Francis&comma; in his Easter Sunday address at St Peter’s Basilica&comma; prayed for the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;young people of Myanmar committed to supporting democracy and making their voices heard peacefully&comma; in the knowledge that hatred can be dispelled only by love”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sunday’s so-called Easter Egg Strike follows other themed days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They included a Flower Strike&comma; in which protesters laid flowers in public places to honour those killed by security forces&comma; and a Silent Strike&comma; in which people across the country left the streets deserted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Security forces continued to spread fear among ordinary citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overnight&comma; a resident of Yangon recorded video of a group of soldiers and police using sling shots to fire stones at the windows of homes&comma; breaking the night’s silence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At other times&comma; soldiers and police keep up their intimidation at night with raids on neighbourhoods&comma; during which they shout abuse&comma; shoot at random&comma; make arrests and vandalise property&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Saturday&comma; police opened fire killing several protesters in Monywa in central Myanmar and elsewhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With most of the internet access cut or severely restricted by the junta&comma; it is becoming increasingly difficult for people in Myanmar to get images of their plight to the outside world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After weeks of overnight internet cutoffs&comma; the military on Friday shut all links apart from those using fibreoptic cable&comma; which was working at drastically reduced speeds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Access to mobile networks and all wireless&comma; 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