What does whatever going on in Myanmar have anything to do with me? Many Singaporeans are probably thinking. I thought the same about the 1988 uprising in Yangon. I was just a child, not even in grade school, barely aware of the country’s existence. Later, in secondary school and junior college, I began to encounter Myanmarese students, most who left ho…
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