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Burmese Protests

The 1988 uprising in Burma; the bombing of Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War; and a black American fashion model breaks the colour barrier.

In August 1988 huge protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence. Thousands of people were killed. Also in the programme, the bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War, a hostage crisis in Malaysia and the American fashion model who broke the colour barrier in the 1970s.

PHOTO: Tommaso Villani/AFP/Getty Images

50 minutes

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Sat 10 Aug 201321:06GMT
BBC World Service Online

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  • Sat 10 Aug 201312:06GMT
    BBC World Service Online
  • Sat 10 Aug 201321:06GMT
    BBC World Service Online

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