Sule Pagoda captured in 1981

Sule Pagoda captured in 1981

At the same platform I will post a photo I captured in 1981.
The Sule Pagoda and its roundabout was an important center all the time.

Captured with a CANON A1 and Kodachrome 50,
scanned with Nikon CoolScan 5000 ED.

The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests; MLCTS, also known as the People Power Uprising was a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (now called as commonly known as Burma or Myanmar). Key events occurred on 8. August 1988, and therefore it is known as the 8888 Uprising.

During the 8888 Uprising, the pagoda was an organizing point and destination selected on the basis of its location and symbolic meaning. In 2007, during the Saffron Revolution, the Sule Pagoda was again utilized as a rallying point for the pro-democracy demonstrations. Many thousands of monks gathered to pray around the pagoda. Sadly, in both 1988 and 2007, the Sule Pagoda became the first place to witness the brutal reaction by the Burmese government against the protesters.