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8888 Uprising History

August 9, 2007

The “8888 Uprising,” the largest ever national Burmese uprising demanding democracy, erupted on 8 August 1988 in Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma. Students started the initial demonstrations in Rangoon. They were quickly later joined by Burmese citizens from all walks of life, including government workers, Buddhist monks, Burma Navy, Air Force and Customs officers, teachers, and hospital staffs. These peaceful demonstrations with students in the Rangoon streets spread to other states’ capitals. 

The student leaders promoted a set of ten demands for the restoration of a democratic government in Burma. The Ne Win government fell and the military imposed martial law giving absolute power to the commander-in-chief, General Saw Maung, in order to quash the demonstrations. The military killed thousands of civilians, including students and Buddhist monks.
Before the 1988 uprising, Burma had been ruled by the repressive and isolated regime of General Ne Win since 1962. In November of late 1985, students gathered and boycotted the government’s decision to withdraw Burmese local currency notes. In September 1987, General Ne Win announced the withdrawal of the newly replaced currency notes, 75 and 25 kyats.

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Page last updated at 15:29 GMT, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:29 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Was Burma's 1988 uprising worth it? By Philippa Fogarty BBC News A series of anti-government rallies took place in Burma in August 1988 On 8 August 1988 cities across Burma were packed with demonstrators. Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the then capital, Rangoon, calling for a transition to democracy and an end to military rule. They were the largest mass protests in the country since independence in 1948 - and it looked for a while as though they might achieve results. But six weeks later, at least 3,000 protesters were dead, thousands more were jailed and the military was firmly back in control. Aung Din, then an engineering student at Rangoon Institute of Technology, was involved from the start.

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The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests ; MLCTS: hrac le: lum: also known as the People Power Uprising^[4]) was a series of marches, demonstrations, protests,^[5] and riots^[6] in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (today commonly known as Burma or Myanmar). Key events occurred on 8 August 1988, and therefore it is known as the "8888 Uprising".^[7]
Since 1962, the country had been ruled by the Burma Socialist Programme Party regime as a one-party state, headed by General Ne Win. The catastrophic Burmese Way to Socialism had turned Burma into one of the world's most impoverished countries.^[8][9][10] Almost everything was nationalized and the government combined Soviet-style central planning with superstitious beliefs.^[10] In an article published in a February 1974 issue of Newsweek magazine, the Burmese Way to Socialism was described as "an amalgam of Buddhist and Marxist illogic".^[11]

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