Description:
For every person who experienced Burma?s democracy summer of 1988, August will always be remembered as a month of bloodshed and crushed hopes. For it was in August 1988 that literally millions of Burmese from every walk of life joined to demand an end to more than a quarter-century of unenlightened despotism, onlyto be gunned down in untold numbers throughout the country.
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 8
Date of Publication:
2000-08-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English