“8888 Uprising”: Thirty Years Later
about 75 months ago (11/01/2018)
"8888 Uprising": Thirty Years Later | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 1, 2018 By Sharaad Kuttan (650 words, four-minute read) Despite the flash of contemporary retail – some garish, some tasteful – Yangon’s old-world charms prevail. Today, walking past the crumbling moss-covered walls that advertise the pleasures of late 20th century globalisation – unlimited wireless connectivity – are slipper-wearing, lungi-wrapped, betel-nut chewing millennials generating unlimited images in a city that only a decade ago still ached to join the global story of democratisation. Thirty years ago the city gifted the world a spectacle of political upheaval, generating in its wake a genuine global icon in the person of Aung San Suu Kyi.