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  Egyptian troops scuffled with pro-democracy protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday as they moved them aside to make way for traffic to resume through the focal point of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.Soldiers entered the square Sunday morning and began removing the tents set up to shelter the protesters whose determined presence forced Mubarak to step down Friday and hand power to the military. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians celebrated his ouster in the square late Friday and Saturday before returning home; but hundreds remained Sunday, vowing to stay until Egypt's new military rulers meet their demands for democratic reforms. Scuffles broke out as some of the activists tried to resist the soldiers' efforts to clear the tent camp. A coalition of youth groups that organized the protests issued a list of demands Saturday, including the dissolution of the ruling party-dominated parliament and the lifting of the deeply unpopular emergency law installed by Mubarak when he took office in 1981

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