Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Revisiting those horrible times -- the repression of 8-8-88 by Renaud Egreteau

in Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.

http://www.massviolence.org/The-repression-of-the-August-8-12-1988-8-8-88-uprising-in?artpage=4

We have a saying for this in Burmese: What was written by hands has been erased by the feet."

Burmese and Thai think lower body parts like feet are not as worthy as the head.