E. II.1.a. 1988 and Ongoing Protest

Andrieux, Aurelié ; Sarosi, Diana ; Moser-Puangsuwan, Yeshua, Speaking Truth to Power: The Methods of Nonviolent Struggle in Burma [1], Bangkok, Nonviolence International Southeast Asia, 2005, pp. 76

Beer, Michael A., Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable? [2], In Zunes; Kurtz; Asher, Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective [3] (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [4]), Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 174-184

Lintner, Bertil, Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy [5], [1989], London and Bangkok, White Lotus, 1990, pp. 208

Covers the 1988 mass unarmed resistance and its suppression.

Oishi, Mikio, Creating a “Ripe moment” in the Burmese conflict through nonviolent action [6], Social Alternatives, Vol. 21, issue 2, 2002, pp. 52-60

see also Oishi, Mikio , Nonviolent Struggle of the Burmese People for Democracy [7] Durban, South Africa, , 1998 , a paper submitted to the 1998 International Peace Research Association Conference.

Rogers, Benedict, Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads [8], London, Rider, 2012, pp. 320

Suu Kyi, Aung SanAris, Michael, Freedom from Fear and Other Writings [9], ed. Aris, Michael, London, Vintage Books, 1991, pp. 338

See especially Suu Kyi’s writings on the democracy struggle in ‘Part II’, pp. 167-237, and essays by Josef Silverstein. ‘Aung San Suu Kyi: Is she Burma’s woman of destiny?’, pp. 267-83 and Philip Kreager, ‘Aung San Suu Kyi and the peaceful struggle for human rights in Burma’, pp. 284-325.

See also: Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements [10] London, Penguin, , 1997, pp. 301 , with contributions by U Kyi Maung and U Tin Oo, London, Penguin, 1997, pp. 301.

Wintle, Justin, Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi [11], London, Hutchinson, 2007, pp. 480

Part Three ‘Sixteen Months’ pp. 225-326 covers March 1988 to July 1989, the evolution of the protests and the regime clamp down; Part Four, pp. 329-429 covers Suu Kyi’s house arrest, the 1990 elections, subsequent attempts to mobilize international pressure, and her defiance when released from arrest in 1998 and 2003.

See also:

Gene Sharp, Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential [12], (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [13]), pp. 245-52

Kurt Schock, Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies [14], (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [13]), pp. 92-98 and 102-19

Robert L. Helvey, On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking about Fundamentals [15], (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [13]), pp. 51-65

Erica Chenoweth; Maria J. Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict [16], (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [13]), pp. 172-91 – Burma 1988 is one of the four case studies in the book, and it is also covered in Chenoweth, Erica ; Stephan, Maria J., Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict [17] International Security, 2008, pp. 7-44

Links
[1] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2005/speaking-truth-power-methods-nonviolent-struggle-burma
[2] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1999/violent-and-nonviolent-struggle-burma-unified-strategy-workable
[3] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1999/nonviolent-social-movements-geographical-perspective
[4] https://civilresistance.info/section/introduction-nonviolent-action/1-theory-methods-and-examples/1b-strategic-theory-dynamics
[5] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1990/outrage-burmas-struggle-democracy
[6] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2002/creating-ripe-moment-burmese-conflict-through-nonviolent-action
[7] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1998/nonviolent-struggle-burmese-people-democracy
[8] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2012/burma-nation-crossroads
[9] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1991/freedom-fear-and-other-writings
[10] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1997/voice-hope-conversations-alan-clements
[11] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2007/perfect-hostage-life-aung-san-suu-kyi
[12] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2005/waging-nonviolent-struggle-20th-century-practice-and-21st-century-potential
[13] https://civilresistance.info/taxonomy/term/7
[14] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2005/unarmed-insurrections-people-power-movements-nondemocracies
[15] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2004/strategic-nonviolent-conflict-thinking-about-fundamentals
[16] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2011/why-civil-resistance-works-strategic-logic-nonviolent-conflict
[17] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2008/why-civil-resistance-works-strategic-logic-nonviolent-conflict