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• History of struggles (Burma/Myanmar)

  Burma: The Day a Student Leader, Salai Tin Maung Oo, was Hanged for Anti-Junta Activism

  26 June, by Wei Yan Aung

  Yangon — On this day in 1976, 25-year-old student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, a strong voice of dissent against the military regime led by dictator General Ne Win, was hanged in Insein Prison.
  The ethnic Chin zoological student at the University of Yangon (then Rangoon) participated in student (...)

• History of struggles (Burma/Myanmar)

  Burma: Asian left parties condemn attacks on workers’ rights

  16 September 2010

  September 16, 2010 — We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the military junta of Burma for its new decree to curb workers’ right to form trade unions and its harsh punishments against any industrial action.
  The military junta of Burma — the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) (...)

• History of struggles (Burma/Myanmar)

  Burma’s long struggle for democracy

  July 2008, by LAMB Jon

  This month is the 20^th anniversary of Burma’s “8888 uprising”, which began on August 8, 1988, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Rangoon, the capital, to protest against decades of military rule and economic mismanagement. The protest included all sectors of Burmese society — (...)

• History of struggles (Burma/Myanmar)

  Malaria: The Nearest Enemy — the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) after 1988

  19 March 2008, by Aung Naing Oo

  Camp Thay Baw Boe, 1989: Despite our resolve to fight the Burmese army and sacrifice our lives for freedom and democracy, the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) was poorly equipped and extremely under-funded. So the battle against Burmese troops that many idealists, including me, (...)