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Protesters in Myanmar clapped together in a show of dissent against the military on Monday as a regional bloc prepared for talks on the crisis that has killed nearly 600 people, Reuters reported.

Clapping began in various parts of the main city Yangon at 5 p.m. (1030 GMT) in response to a call by protest organisers, residents said.

The gesture would honour “Ethnic Armed Organisations and Gen Z defence youths from Myanmar including Yangon who are fighting in the revolution... on behalf of us,” Ei Thinzar Maung, a protest leader, wrote on Facebook.