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...Buddhist monks first sang this mantra. For a week now, they had been marching, calling peacefully for change in a country ruled for almost half a century by a corrupt and barbaric junta. Burma's monkhood and military are roughly the same size - both have between 300,000 and 400,000 men - but the similarities end there. With the monks preaching tolerance and peace, and the military demanding obedience at gunpoint, these protests pitted Burma's most beloved institution against its most reviled...
BOSTON—Chanting in Burmese, Harvard students and Bostonians came together yesterday afternoon in front of the State House to show solidarity with protesters who have taken to the streets against Myanmar’s ruling military junta...
...side, Maung held the Burmese flag while another demonstrator held up a picture of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has not left the country since 1988. In 1990, when she was under house arrest, the junta refused to recognize her party’s victory in the parliamentary elections...
USAGE The Burmese have long referred to the area as both Bama and Myanma. The British in 1885 dubbed the colony Burma, a name that stuck until a military junta changed it to Myanmar in 1989. The U.S. and the U.K. refuse to recognize the newer name...
...ruling junta continues its crackdown against pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar, students gathered for a teach-in at the Student Organization Center at Hilles to spread awareness about the situation there. About 50 people attended the event Tuesday night, which followed last Friday’s demonstration in Harvard Square. The first speaker, Daw Aye Aye San, was an activist in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in 1988 amid a wave of student protests. She said that after being arrested, she was tortured for six days before being sent to prison. She said that one military officer told...