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Burma's 1988 Protests
In August 1988 huge protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence.
Thousands of people were killed.
Photo: Burmese soldiers order crowds of protesters to disperse (Tommaso Villani/AFP/Getty Images)
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