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Pope salutes Myanmar youth as protesters decorate Easter eggs

This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source on Sunday shows protesters holding up eggs to coincide with Easter Sunday and making the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in Taunggyi in Myanmar’s Shan state. (Photo by Handout / ANONYMOUS / AFP)

Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar decorated boiled eggs on Sunday, as Pope Francis in his Easter message expressed solidarity with the country’s youth.

Myanmar has been gripped by turmoil since a Feb 1 coup ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and derailed the country’s tentative transition to democracy.

Security forces have sought to quell a mass uprising with lethal force and the death toll reached 557 as of Saturday, according to local monitoring group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).

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