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DOMINIC FAULDER, Associate Editor, Nikkei Asian Review, and GWEN ROBINSON, Editor-at-large, Nikkei Asian Review

September 5, 2018 13:13 JST

YANGON/BANGKOK -- A full generation has grown up since the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) of Senior Gen. Saw Maung seized power on Sept. 18, 1988, putting a bloody end to a nationwide pro-democracy uprising that lasted some six weeks. An estimated 3,000 people died in the crackdown, which re-established direct military rule by a junta.