VIDEO: New uprising takes hold in Cairo's Tahrir Square in Egypt

For the third day in a row, protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square clased with police and the military as Egyptians press the country's military rulers to move more quickly to civilian rule.

This is the longest, bloodiest protest in Egypt since the Egyptian military forced former President Hosni Mubarak from power back in February, the New York Times reported.

"A representative of the ruling military council, Said Abbas, visited Tahrir Square on Monday and spoke in a brief news conference, where he said that the council respected the protesters’ right to peaceful demonstrations. He declared that the security forces had not initiated any violence but only defended themselves, and he insisted — despite a sweep of the square Sunday evening by hundreds of soldiers and police in riot gear — that the security forces had not entered the square," the Times reported.

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