Myanmar's state-run media has said that at least nine people were killed during protests on the streets of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday.Al Jazeera exclusive from inside Myanmar
However, activists on the ground in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, are reporting a death toll of nearly 200 since the government crackdown began on Wednesday, with several hundred more wounded.
Hundreds of others are reported to have been arrested, many of them beaten or seized from their homes in overnight raids.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Myanmar says that the protests are now largely made up of students instead of monks.
"Some people have been trying to provoke the army, but older protesters have been trying to calm them down and not provoke soldiers."
He says there is evidence that the protests are organised.
"People giving out water and medical supplies on the streets, keeping watch for soldiers."
The correspondent also says that the authorities have been photgraphing and filming protesters.
This has "raised speculation that the authorities wanted the protests to go on for four to five days, let all the protesters come out, be identified and then move in to round them up."
The news comes as the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean), in unusually strong language against a fellow member state, expressed "revulsion" at the crackdown by Myanmar's military rulers.
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