Written by Admin on August 7, 2013. Posted in News, Top Stories
Myanmar marked silver jubilee of 8888 popular uprisings, the largest
nation-wide protest against the military junta, in Yangon.
The ceremony organized by 88 Generation Peace and Open Society, formed
with former political prisoners who were then students who took the
leading role in the rally is being organized in Myanmar Convention
Centre in Yangon on August 6-8.
Senior government ministers including president office minister Aung
Min attended Day 2 of the three-day conference where papers on
Myanmar's politics are being read out.
The government shot down the protesters with brute force in the bloody
crackdown.
Then dictator Ne Win said in a message that the government troops
would not only made warning shots in the air and did the same way.
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend
the meeting on its final day on August 8, the same day the army seized
power in the military coup against Ne Win's one-party government.
A new political platform for 88 Generation students is expected from
the conference, according to comments of the leaders of 88 Generation
students ahead of the event.
Such an event would be impossible about two years ago when most of the
student activists then were jailed. They were freed in a series of
presidential amnesties over the past two years.
Photo credit to Ayarwaddy
http://www.information.myanmaronlinecentre.com/myanmar-marks-8888-popular-uprisings/
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