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ABSL

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>         NATIONAL STUDENTS MOVEMENT IN BURMA
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> By Soe Myint
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> General Secretary, All Burma Students League
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> @ ALL BURMA STUDENTS LEAGUE
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>       3, KRISHNA MENON MARG,
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>        NEW DELHI - 1100 11
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> Introduction
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> Unlike some other Asian countries which achieved independence after the Second Would War. Burma is
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> Throughout the history of Burma, the liberation movements of the country, whether that was against
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> Brief background history of Burma
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> Burma is a country which is situated in the Southeast Asia and located in between the world's two 
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> It is a country where many indigenous people (more than 130 nationalities) are staying and speakin
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> Burma was under the British colonial rule for more than one hundred years and Burma achieved its i
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> In 1974, the military regime transformed itself into a ruling political party, Burma Socialist pro
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> In 1988, due to the deteriorating economic situation of the country and oppressive rule of the one
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> However, the military responded the people's desire with bullets and thousands and thousands of de
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> The students and youth who led the demonstrations became the target of the military government and
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> As Burma virtually turned into SLORC's killing fields, many students and youth of Burma decided to
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> After her release from house arrest in 1996, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi reactivated her party, National 
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> Students Movement in the Independence Struggle (1930-1948) 
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> Since the time of independence movement, the students and youth of Burma played a leading role in 
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> The Students' Boycott Council claimed: "We believe that at this juncture, nothing can save the nat
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> Students Movement in Burma (1962-1988)
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> The military led by General Ne Win took over the country on a brutal coup on 2nd March 1962  and e
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> The intellectual students who were always in the forefront of the movements fighting against the o
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> However, the heroic students of Burma have not taken the oppressive on-slaught of the military lyi
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> The protest later  joined by workers and became the biggest anti-military regime demonstration in 
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> In March 1976, the last major demonstration in the 1970s against the military government was broke
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> Students Movement in Burma (1988-1997)
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> Undeterred by the military's all out crackdown on each and every sections of Burmese society, the 
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> On August 8, 1988, the people of Burma led by the university students rose up as one to call upon 
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> However, the concerted efforts and relentless struggle of the people in their show of  strength th
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> However, the military intervened again with guns. The military led by General Saw Maung took over 
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> After the coup in 1988, the students divided themselves into two sections: a section of the studen
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> In 1989, those students and youth who arrived at the Thai-Burma border areas formed themselves int
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> The All Burma Students League (ABSL) was formed on 30th July 1994 when India-based democratic forc
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> In January 1006, the Students and Youth Congress of Burma (SYCB) was formed as an umbrella student
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> ABSDF, ABLS, DPNS, Chin Students Union, All Arakan Students and Youth Union (AASYU), All Kachin St
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> While the students outside the country continue the struggle for the restoration of democracy in B
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