Protesters began to take to the streets Monday morning in Myanmar, despite the deployment of troops and the intensification of the crackdown by the junta, an AFP photographer noted.
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Several hundred engineers and students gathered in the north of Rangoon, the economic capital, he said. The security forces fired on demonstrators on Sunday, the army having deployed troops in several cities and almost completely cut the internet.