Myanmar families hold funerals for crackdown victims as activists defy security crackdown
THE families of dozens of people killed in demonstrations against military rule in Myanmar attended their funerals yesterday as more protesters defied the security forces and at least one man was shot dead. The political and economic crisis over the February 1 overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government could also force the poor into hunger as food and fuel prices rise, the United Nations food agency said. Security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday after 74 were killed a day earlier, including many in a suburb of Yangon where Chinese-financed factories were torched, according to…