Events mark ’88 Burma brutality
ASIANAGE
BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Aug. 8: Observing the 20th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy students in 1988 by the junta, several programmes were organised in the national capital on Friday.
The programmes were to focus on the brutal regime of the military junta in Burma and has seminars, talks, photo exhibition and also a candle vigil at the India Gate.
The Global Justice for Burma organised a talk at the Habitat Centre where monk Ashi Aggadahja, representing the International Burmese Monks Organisation, said the military junta in Burma has killed, jails and silenced so many people of Burma with fear that the monks had formed the IBMO to be heard as the voice of the people.
He said the military junta has brutally suppressed innocent people and posed a threat to world peace.
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