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                        Rare Student Protest in Myanmar

   by VOA News

   Students in Yangon have held a second day of demonstrations against
   Myanmar's new education law.

   Civic groups say the measure allows centralized control of universities
   and curtails efforts to bring about autonomy of Myanmar's institutions
   of higher learning,

   Hundreds also marched Friday during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit
   to Myanmar, also known as Burma.

   Saturday, they marched to the locked gates of Yangon University, and
   climbed over to let themselves in when officials did not open them.

   The students shouted "Arrest Us" as they continued their protest at the
   site of the university's student union building, destroyed by the
   military 26 years ago.

   Students bowed their heads in memory of earlier generations of
   protesters, killed by the British colonial forces and the Myanmar
   military regime.

   The students left the campus peacefully, but said their protests would
   continue.

   The protest for democracy in education was on the same campus where Mr.
   Obama met students just a day earlier.


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