Burma's Student Uprising: A Legacy of Resistance

They weren’t soldiers. They weren’t politicians. They were students — teenagers, barely adults —

who did something no one expected: they stood up to a dictatorship… and paid for it

in blood. Burma, 1962. General Ne Win seizes power in a sudden

military coup, ending the country’s fragile democracy. His new regime — the “Burmese Way

to Socialism” — crushed dissent, censored the press, and ruled through fear.

But there was one place the generals couldn’t silence: Rangoon University. Its students had

long been the heartbeat of Burmese politics. They’d protested British colonial rule.

They’d marched for independence. And now, they watched their freedoms vanish