Hundreds of Egyptians have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark the anniversary of protests against the military in 2011 that ignited deadly clashes with security forces.
The demonstration comes four months after the military again stepped in to rule after ousting Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, following mass protests against his turbulent one-year reign.
The 2011 demonstrations in central Cairo were against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the military junta that assumed power after the toppling of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
On Monday, protesters chanted against the army and sprayed red paint on a monument the military-installed authorities are erecting in Tahrir Square, the scene of scores of protests over the last three years.
The government has presented the monument as a memorial to all those killed in Egypt's "revolution" since the outbreak of protests against Mubarak.
But its decision to inaugurate the monument on Tuesday, the anniversary of the November clashes, has incensed activists.
"Nothing has changed, the regime remains. We are against the military rule," protester Mohamed Mahmud said.
"For us, the revolution is still unfinished," his friend Hussein Safed said.
At least 43 people were killed and more than 3,000 wounded in days of clashes between protesters and security forces that began on November 19, 2011, just nine months after Mubarak's ouster.
The SCAF handed over power the following year to Morsi, a veteran Muslim Brotherhood leader who won Egypt's first democratic presidential election.
But just one year later the army overthrew and detained Morsi following massive demonstrations against his turbulent rule and installed an interim government.
The security forces meanwhile launched a brutal crackdown on Morsi's Islamist supporters that peaked on August 14, when police moved in to disperse two pro-Morsi protest camps, killing hundreds of people.
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