Description:
"The booming voice of a young student leader, Ko Ba Hein, standing on the roof of
Magwe prison during the ?1300 Peoples Uprising? ignited the fire of student activism in
the pages of recent Burmese history. At this important juncture in the struggle for
independence from the British in 1938, students joined hand in hand with young
Buddhist monks, workers, farmers and the general public in the Burmah Oil Company
strike. This type of alliance became the model for mass movements whenever the
country faced political and economic crises."...
Source/publisher:
Lawyers Information Network (LINK)
Date of entry:
2014-10-07
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English