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Worldwide Events and Commemorations of the 8.8.88 Uprising
On 8 August 1988, thousands of people took to the streets in Rangoon. People from all walks of life, including monks, teachers, hospital workers, government workers, and many others all joined in the protests. As the day progressed, the protests grew in size and inspired citizens in other areas of Burma to join in demonstrations in their cities.
That evening the military violently retaliated, opening fire with machine guns on the unarmed protesters. The shootings continued into the night and the following days.
Activists from Burma and their supporters around the world mark this day every year in commemoration of those who lost their lives and to reaffirm their commitment to achieving democracy and human rights in their country.
The following are some of the events and commemorations that were held this year.
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Philippine Gov’t Asked to Support Probe on International Crimes in Burma
Solidarity activists based in Manila and Davao City under the Free Burma Coalition-Philippines (FBC-Phils) today joined the international commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of August 08, 1988 Edsa-like national uprising in Burma where 10,000 peaceful demonstrators were shot […]
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ရွစ္ေလးလံုး အေရးေတာ္ပံုၾကီး ၂၃ႏွစ္ျပည့္ျပီ။ မိုင္းရာျပည့္ အေရးအခင္းက ၃၅ႏွစ္ ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ျပီ။ ဆဲဗင္းဂ်ဴလိုင္ ေသြးေခ်ာင္းစီးခဲ့ျခင္းက ၄၉ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ျပီ။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီး ဝါးျမိဳေတာက္ေလာင္ေနျခင္းက ၆၃ႏ်စ မကျပီ။ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ျပည္သူလူထုၾကီးက ဆက္လက္တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ေနဆဲ […]
| |Joint Rally of Indonesian People To Commemorate The 23rd Anniversary of 8888 People Uprising, mass killings and detention: it is time for ASEAN to act
Twenty years ago in 8 August 1988 people uprising in Burma has toppled the military dictator, General Ne Win. Military in response has brutally suppressed the uprising leading to the killings of around 10.000 people, disappearances and another thousand detained until today. Some them has yet found dead mysteriously in the most severe prisons in the country. Another thousand has fled the country living stateless until today […]
| |The Spirit of 8888 Continues to Intensify: Joint Statement on the 23rd Anniversary of Burma’s 8888 People’s Uprising
Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the 1988 people’s uprising in Burma in which individuals from all walks of life throughout the country stood up and dared to speak out against the ruthless military regime. On this day in 1988, as many as 3,000 lives were lost when the regime responded
ယေန႔သည္ ျမန္မာတျပည္လံုးရွိ ျပည္သူမ်ားမွ လွည္းေနေလွေအာင္း ျမင္းေဇာင္းမက်န္ ရက္စက္ယုတ္ မာေသာ စစ္အုပ္စုအား ရဲရဲရင့္ရင့္ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား ရင္ဆိုင္၍၎တို႔၏ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ စတင္ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည့္ ၈ ေလးလံုးလူထုအေရးေတာ္ပံု ၂၃ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ေန႔ျဖစ္ သည္။ ထိုအေရးေတာ္ပံုတြင္ စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ရက္စက္စြာ ဖိႏွိပ္ျဖိဳခြဲမႈေၾကာင့္ ဆႏၵျပသူ ၃၀၀၀ ခန္႔က်ဆံုးခဲ့ ၾကရကာ ထိုသူမ်ား၏ျပင္းျပေသာ […]
| |Burma: CSW Renews Call for Inquiry into Crimes against Humanity on 23rd Anniversary of 1988 Massacre
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today renews its call for the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma, as the people of Burma mark the twenty-third anniversary of the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protestors on 8 August […]
| |Burma: 23rd Anniversary of Student Uprising
During the “8.8.88” uprising more than 3,000 students and young people were killed by the Burmese military during pro-democracy protests on 8 August 1988. But the event led to elections in 1990 […]
| |Invitation: Commemoration in Bangkok of the 23rd Anniversary of the 1988 Nationwide Pro-Democracy Uprising in Burma
The Forum for Democracy in Burma, Student and Youth Congress of Burma, Nationalities Youth Forum, Assistance Association of Political Prisoners – Burma, Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma and Burma Partnership would like to invite you to join our commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
The event will include a panel discussion entitled “23 Years of Resistance: Ongoing Human Rights Abuses and the Urgent Need for a Commission of Inquiry.” Speakers will recall experiences of the 1988 uprising, share details about the current human rights abuses and armed conflict in […]
| |Action Alert: Call for a Commission of Inquiry on the Anniversary of the 8.8.88 Uprising
There are only 32 days remaining to persuade the European Union to include the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry in the draft of resolution on Burma to be adopted at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly scheduled in September in New York. With the 23rd anniversary of the 8.8.88 nationwide pro-democracy uprising less than 2 weeks away, the anniversary presents an important opportunity to pressure key governments to support the Commission of Inquiry (CoI). Read more about how you can get involved.
စက္တင္ဘာလ နယူးေယာက္ျမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပမည့္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံတြင္ အတည္ျပဳဆံုးျဖတ္ ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ျမန္မာျပည္ အေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ားအား ျပင္ဆင္ေရးသားရာတြင္ လူသားမ်ဳိးႏြယ္အေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္ေသာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈ ႏွင့္ စစ္ရာဇဝတ္မႈ က်ဴးလြန္မႈမ်ားကို ေဖၚထုတ္ရန္အတြက္ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းေရးကို ထည့္သြင္းေရးသားရန္ ဥေရာပ သမဂၢအား ဝိုင္းဝန္းလႈံ႕ေဆာ္ၾကရန္ ရက္ေပါင္း (၃၇) ရက္သာက်န္ေတာ့သည္ […]
| |8.8.88 – A Day of Unity that Must Live On
Twenty-two years ago on 8 August, Burma’s army brutally massacred as many as 3,000 peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators marching against increasing poverty and oppression, and calling for an end to the military dictatorship. The serious human rights violations and economic mismanagement that led to the national uprising in 1988 have continued to worsen under the current regime.[…]
2 – 8 August: 8.8.88 – A Day of Unity that Must Live On
Twenty-two years ago on 8 August, Burma’s army brutally massacred as many as 3,000 peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators marching against increasing poverty and oppression, and calling for an end to the military dictatorship. The serious human rights violations and economic mismanagement that led to the national uprising in 1988 have continued to worsen under the current regime.[…]
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