"Our Heads are Bloody But Unbowed": Suppression of Educational Freedoms in Burma

Description: 

In June 1990 another important student leader, Min Zeya, chairman of the smaller All Burma Students Democratic Association, was reportedly sentenced to eight years in jail. With the colleges now shut, the SLORC sent university and regional college teachers away on boot camp "re-education" courses at Phaunggyi, organized by the Military Intelligence Service. A standardized system of education was also introduced under the 1966 Basic Education Law and the 1973 Union of Burma Education Law.

Source/publisher: 

Article 19 (Censorship News No. 18)

Date of Publication: 

1992-12-10

Date of entry: 

2003-06-03

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

Category: 

Language: 

English

Format: 

Size: