Tensions continue in Burma, two months after the military coup.
The Burmese junta ousted its ambassador to Great Britain favorable to Aung San Suu Kyi.
An initiative that has sparked condemnation from the United Kingdom while violence has intensified in recent days in the center of the country.
The bloody repression of the security forces against the wind of democratic rebellion which is shaking Burma is not weakening.
Above all, the crisis continues to stir up internationally.
Diplomats close to the junta seized the Burmese embassy in London on Wednesday evening and refused access to Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn, support of Aung San Suu Kyi, forced to spend the night in his car .
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The military attaché took the direction of the representation, noted Kyaw Zwar Minn denouncing "a kind of coup", in a very tense diplomatic context.
On Thursday, the British Foreign Office was notified by the Burmese authorities of the end of the ambassador's mandate and London said it had no choice but to accept.
About ten civilians killed in recent days
"We condemn the intimidating actions of the military regime," said the head of British diplomacy, Dominic Rabb.
Asked about these events, the junta did not respond to AFP's requests.
The death toll has grown even higher in recent days: at least eleven people were killed and several injured Wednesday and Thursday by security forces in Taze in the center of the country, according to local media.
The latter also report three deaths in the ranks of the army.
An assessment that AFP could not confirm at this stage from an independent source.
Residents, armed with hunting rifles and incendiary bombs, tried to prevent the police and soldiers from entering the town;
the latter then retaliated.
About 600 civilians have been shot dead since the February 1 coup, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP).
A tribute to the "heroes who fell under the bullets"
The toll could be heavier: more than 2,800 people have been arrested.
Many, without access to their relatives or a lawyer, are missing.
And the judicial hunt continues: some 120 celebrities of the country - singers, models, journalists - are targeted by an arrest warrant, accused of having disseminated information likely to provoke mutinies in the armed forces.
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Pro-democracy mobilization is not weakening with tens of thousands of workers on strike and entire sectors of the economy paralyzed.
In the cities, the protesters try to find parades to continue to be heard.
On Thursday, they left shoes in the streets to symbolize each absent protester.
In Yangon, they have also been installed in bus shelters, some decorated with red roses in tribute to "heroes who fell under the bullets", according to images posted on social networks.
Anti-coup protesters' latest idea of peaceful protest on Thursday in Yangon.
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The coup drew many condemnations from Western capitals and led to the defection of several prominent Burmese diplomats, including the country's ambassador to the United Nations.
The United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union have sanctioned the junta and its leader, General Ming Aung Hlaing.
For their part, China and Russia, traditional allies of the Burmese army, reject the idea of coercive measures.
In the meantime, a resistance group dubbed CRPH (Committee to Represent Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the Burmese Legislature) has started talks with UN investigators into the alleged atrocities.
The head of the junta, General Min Aung Hlaing, for his part accused the demonstrators of wanting to "destroy the country", ensuring that the crisis is "democratically" resolved.
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