1988

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/6/20
  

  Iran Air Flight 655: Iran’s president invokes 1988 tragedy many Americans have forgotten

  On Monday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked history right back in response to Trump’s threat.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-8-13
  

  25 years on, ripples of Myanmar’s tumultuous 1988 summer still linger

  YANGON, Myanmar — Twenty-five years later, you can still see the fear in the eyes of the doctors — two young men carrying a schoolgirl, her blouse drenched in blood, through streets where soldiers were brutally crushing pro-democracy protests.The photograph, thrust to prominence when it ran on the cover of Newsweek, came to symbolize the defeat of a 1988 uprising in the nation then called Burma. The revolt’s end cemented the power of the military, sent thousands of activists to prison and helped bring a future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to prominence....