8-8-88 (Four-Shit) Uprising: Anarchy and Head-Choppings

(Direct translation of Soe Naing’s memoir from December Lad’s Facebook page.)







Nowadays there are so many just-over-20-year-olds
at my work and I began to realize the 8-8-88 Uprising exactly 25 years ago is
now just a history for them. But for me who was     barely
18 in August 1988 the failed Uprising is still recent in my mind.





Back then I was a tenth-grade student
at State High