A wreath is kept on a barbed-wired roadside barrier outside Yangon city hall commemorating the victims of Aug. 8, 1988 pro-democracy uprising in Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday. More than a million people protested following the government's sudden demonetization of the currency in September 1987, in which brought down longtime dictator Ne Win, but replaced him with new group of generals who brutally crushed the protests killing an estimated 3,000 people on August 8, 1988.
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