Burma

largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma

under military rule since 1962

native country of U Thant, 3rd Secretary General of the UN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant During the period of December 5 through December 11, 1974, the student demonstrators also built a temporary mausoleum for U Thant on the grounds of the RUSU and gave anti-government speeches. In the early morning hours of December 11, 1974, government troops stormed the campus, killed some of the students guarding the make-shift mausoleum, removed U Thant's coffin, and reburied it at the foot of the Shwedagon Pagoda, where it has continued to lie.


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