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Twenty painful years; Myanmar.(The sad state of Myanmar's opposition)
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The Economist (US)
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August 16, 2008
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Remembrance day, in London not Yangon
Hopes for change have yielded to despair
THE anniversary on August 8th of Myanmar's popular uprising against military rule in 1988 saw exiled activists across the world remember fallen colleagues and call for renewed pressure on the junta by foreign governments. But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.
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