ABSTRACT
Everyday Life Experiences under the Military Regime in Burma Burma’s military regime (1962-current) has been one of the most repressive and authoritarian governments in the world. It cracked down on the unarmed, student-led, nationwide, pro-democracy movement in the period between 1988 and 1989, and it is estimated that about 10,000 people were killed. The killing was indiscriminate; students as young as thirteen were shot, bayoneted, and run over by tanks. Women were robbed, raped, and killed. The army also fired at nurses in the Rangoon General hospital simply because they carried a banner saying “doctors, nurses and hospital workers who are treating the wounded urge the soldiers to stop shooting.”1 Some of those who were injured by the army were carried away in truckloads, taken to the cemetery and burnt alive. Those who were arrested were tortured.2
