This year, as in years past, the commemoration evoked sombre reflection for many.
“I joined the ceremony in remembrance of fallen friends. I am really sad to recall all those scenes,” said U Nyunt Thaung, a 76-year-old National League for Democracy member from Thingangyun township, who was among 500 people packed into a monastery in the commercial capital for a commemoration ceremony.
Yesterday’s event at the Dhamma Piya Monastery was held to mark August 8, 1988, when student-led protests and a general strike spread that would, in the weeks that followed, bring hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets, posing arguably the greatest threat to decades of iron-fisted military rule in Myanmar. (Courtesy of mmtimes.com)
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