Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar defied bans on gatherings to extend the biggest demonstrations in more than a decade on Tuesday, confronting police who fired water cannons and arrested more than two dozen people.

After watching hundreds of thousands of people rally in opposition to last week’s coup, junta chief General Min Aung Hlaing made a televised speech on Monday evening to justify seizing power.

His statement came as the military banned gatherings of more than five people in parts of Yangon, the nation’s commercial capital, and other areas across the country where major rallies had erupted over the weekend and on Monday.

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