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1949
Anti-Government Demonstration in 1949
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This photograph, taken in 1949 on the corner of Sule Pagoda Road and Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street), shows an anti-government demonstration. The government then controlled little outside Rangoon and much of the country was in the hands of the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Defense Organisation, and various militia. Le Maison Continental (a leading French restaurant) is partly visible on the left, the offices Burma Railways on the right.