Word: kyandaw
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...fighting began when Thant's body was being escorted to a modest private burial service in a small family mausoleum in Rangoon's Kyandaw Cemetery. Probably because Thant had been a political ally of Premier U Nu, who was overthrown in a 1962 coup by President Ne Win, the current regime was trying to inter him with a minimum of fanfare. But the city's volatile students, who apparently wanted a more imposing burial site for their distinguished countryman, abducted the body on the way to the mausoleum. Along with antigovernment Buddhist monks, they paraded it through...
...Early last month, the gates of a sequestered compound in the northwest suburbs of sticky, sprawling Rangoon creaked open and 68 men & women filed out. They straggled the short distance to Kyandaw Cemetery, the city's common burial ground for Burmese Buddhists, camped there. They had not come to die; they were lepers who had caught the strike fever. Their bargaining power rested on the notion which Burmese share with other Asiatics that leprosy is a highly contagious disease...
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