Protesters hit Cairo's Tahrir on anniversary of deaths

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By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to commemorate the deaths of protesters killed two years ago and call for reforms, with many voicing rare criticism of the powerful military. Supporters of army chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who promised stability and free elections when he overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July, also showed up at Tahrir but were chased away by activists. The army and the police have been lionized in the press and public since the fall of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood backers. But the protesters who gathered in Tahrir said the goals of the popular uprising which toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 had not been met and accused the security forces of acting mostly with impunity in the intervening two years.

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