Students protests at Yangon University, Nov 2014. Wikipedia.org

 

The Irrawaddy-Dec 10

Twenty-seven years ago today, Myanmar saw its first large-scale student demonstration since the 1988 Uprising. The demonstration, inspired by international celebrations of Human Rights Day, which falls annually on Dec. 10, took place on the campus of Yangon University and called for the junta to stepdown, recognition of the election results, freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and the release of all students detained for their participation in previous demonstrations, and it goes down in modern Myanmar political history as 10-D. Unsurprisingly, the demonstration was quickly quashed by a brutal crackdown by the then-junta.

Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/commentary/a-human-rights-day-when-myanmars-junta-lived-up-to-its-reputation.html

First published in: The Irrawaddy