Speech to a Mass Rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda

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"The following is the English translation prepared by the author of the speech she delivered in Burmese to a mass rally on the open ground west of the great Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon on 26 August 1988. Of the approximately one thousand public addresses she calculated she had given throughout the length and breadth of Burma between August 1988 and July 1989, this was the first and the only one for which she had prepared text to hand. Two days earlier she had made a brief appearance in front of the Rangoon General Hospital, the main focus of popular demonstra­tions at the time, in order to announce her intention to address the rally and to call for discipline and unity..."

Creator/author: 

Aung San Suu Kyi

Source/publisher: 

Aung San Suu Kyi

Date of Publication: 

1988-08-26

Date of entry: 

2005-05-03

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English

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