On 1 March, 1919, the nation-wide March 1st Movement that erupted in Korea signifies the arrival of this climax. However, the March 1st movement was violently suppressed by Japanese imperialists and failed in the end. The main reasons for its failure are…Secondly, Korean nationalists fantasized that they could "beg" for Korean independence from the United States and the Paris Peace Conference, instead of relying on the Korean people to achieve independence with violence. After the failure of the March 1st movement, Korean patriots could not begin anti-Japanese struggles, and therefore went into exile overseas in great numbers.
The Burmese military staged a coup in 1988, which overthrew the socialist government at that time and seized political power. It then suppressed democratization movements intiated by the NLD [and other political parties]. Many political prisoners were imprisoned.
Such was the cruelty of the local tyrants and evil gentry in former days, such was the White terror they created in the countryside, and now that the peasants have risen and shot a few and created just a little terror in suppressing the counter-revolutionaries, is there any reason for saying they should not do so?
Mandarin
全州的四千多名大学生也冒着警察用催泪弹的镇压,顽强地进行了示威斗争。
全州的四千多名大學生也冒着警察用催淚彈的鎮壓,頑強地進行了示威鬥爭。
quán zhōu de sì qiān duō míng dà xué shēng yě mào zhe jǐng chá yòng cuī lèi dàn de zhèn yā , wán qiáng dì jìn xíng le shì wēi dòu zhēng .
4000 university students in Jeonju also protested and struggled with determination, facing police repression with tear gas