FromThe BBC: Myanmar coup: What protesters can learn from the '1988 generation'
This article gives some important perspective to the present problems in Myanmar.
However, no mention is made of the primary influence of the Buddhist Nationalists
that I learned of during the recent genocide that has driven the Rohingya Muslims in
Myanamar into Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Malaysia as refugees. I'll be writing about that (again) in a separate op.
from this article:
'Student activists lead a movement to bring an end to a widely-hated military government in Myanmar. It grows into a nationwide uprising, a general strike, which is met with savage brutality by the armed forces. 2021? Or 1988?
The 1988 uprising remains one of the defining moments of Myanmar's modern history. A regime which had used extreme levels of violence to hold onto power, suddenly found itself facing massive protests over its calamitous mishandling of the economy.
By 1988 Burma, as the South East Asian nation was then known, had been ruled for 26 years by the secretive and superstitious General Ne Win, who seized power in a coup in 1962. He was commander of the armed forces - known as the Tatmadaw - which had been fighting insurgencies in several parts of Burma since independence in 1948, and viewed civilians as incapable of holding the country together.
General Ne Win cut Burma off from the outside world, refusing to take sides in the Cold War divisions then afflicting Asia. Instead he implemented an eccentric one-party system under his Burma Socialist Programme Party, in which the army played a dominant role, and led to Burma becoming one of the world's poorest countries.'
much more text and photos at link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56331307
