Showing posts with label Red Bridge. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

When a White Bridge Ran Red With Students' Blood.

The Irrawaddy
By WEI YAN AUNG | 16 March 2019


People commemorate the fatal government crackdown on March 16, 1988, on student protesters at Yangon's "white bridge" in September of that year. / Htein Win

Thirty-one years ago today on Pyay Road in Yangon, Tada Phyu —”the white bridge” in Burmese — ran red with the blood of student protesters caught in a brutal government crackdown