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Myanmar's bloody '8-8-88' uprising remembered

Fri, 2008-08-08 02:22 — Robyn

Thursday, August 07, 2008

YANGON - People in Myanmar marked exactly 20 years on Friday since the army crushed an "8-8-88" democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, although the only protests were likely to be outside the country.

After last year's large-scale fuel-price rallies, the generals in charge of the former Burma are taking no chances, with extra police and pro-government thugs stationed at strategic points and Buddhist monasteries around Yangon, the main city.

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