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This week, for the first time in several
years, the NLD marks the anniversary of the country's
quashed 1988 student uprising.
Annual events dissipated in the late
1990s, when the party was faced with mounting repression
and arrests.
The celebrations come amid signs of
warming relations between the NLD and the government,
with the release of NLD detainees, the opening of its
offices and further landmark talks with Aung San Suu
Kyi.
The developments are credited to secret
negotiations that began last October between military
leaders and Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house
arrest in Myanmar's capital Yangon.
But Myanmar still has a long road to
recovery. It remains a nation emaciated by diplomatic
and economic isolation, and the efforts to restore it
to democracy are a long way from being fulfilled.
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