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YANGON (AFP) - At least five opposition rebels have been killed after days of clashes in Myanmar, an anti-junta militia said Sunday (May 16), as Britain and the United States condemned the military's violence against civilians. The country has been in uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a Feb 1 coup, triggering a massive uprising which authorities have sought to quell with lethal force. Some in the anti-junta movement have set up local militias armed with home-made weapons to protect their towns from security forces - which have killed at least 790 civilians according...
