Dateline
By The Irrawaddy 12 December 2020
Ye Ni: Welcome to Dateline Irrawaddy! Yangon University has turned 100 years old. Dec. 9 the 10th Waning Day of Tazaungmone on Myanmar’s lunar calendar also marks the centenary of National Day.
We’ll discuss what student unions are planning for the centenary of Yangon University and National Day, which played an important role in Myanmar’s history, and what they will be doing to re-establish the Rangoon [Yangon] University Students Union [RUSU] building, which was dynamited in 1962.
Yangon University Student Union [YUSU] chairman Ko Nyi Nyi Zaw and U Ko Ko Gyi, one of the student leaders of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABSFU) in 1988 and now the chairman of the People’s Party, join me for the discussion. I’m The Irrawaddy Burmese editor Ye Ni.