This page presents you the Burmese students' movement in Australia for democracy and human rights in Burma. Burmese students in Australia participated in the nationwide pro-democracy movement against the military dictatorship by the Burmese government in 1988. The peaceful demonstrations were brutally cracked down by the military. The military took over the power in September 1988 and still refuses to hand over the power to the representatives of people who won the seats in 1990 election. Most of Burmese students came out from Burma to continue their struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma. A number of Burmese students have arrived in Australia as permanent residents and scholarship students since 1993. They continue their movement for motherland such as demonstrations and hunger strike against the military junta in Burma.

Photographs: Demonstrations in front of the Burmese Embassy in Canberra.

Photographs: All Burma Students' Democratic Organisation (ABSDO) in Australia.

Photographs: Sixth Anniversary Day of May 27 (Election Day) - The Victory of NLD.

Photographs: A group of Burmese Students in Australia blocked the way of Burmese Embassy's car entering into the Burmese Embassy. The SLORC is an illegitimate government in Burma. No SLORC's Embassy in Australia!

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 Photographs: Burma Week (7-11 April 1997) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) organised by RMIT Student Union, the International Students Collective, National League for Democracy (Librated Area) Australia, ABSDO (Australia) and Burmese Students in Melbourne.

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Photographs: A Hunger Strike organised by All Burmese Students' Democratic Organisation (ABSDO) in Australia. The Hunger Strike against Burmese military junta (SLORC) was held in front of Burmese Embassy in Canberra on 7-11 July 1995. One of the demands to the SLORC was to immediately release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a leader of National League for Democracy and Nobel Peace Prize winner, from house arrest. She was released on 10 July 1995, the day before the Hunger Strike was ended.

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Photographs: The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Foreign Minister were together with Burmese students at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra after the special show of Beyond Rangoon in 1995. Both Ministers gave the speeches before starting of the special show in the Parliament House.

 Photographs: The Prime Minister of NCGUB, Dr. Sein Win, visited to Australia in 1996. There was a public meeting in the State Parliament of Victoria. Burmese students met with the Prime Minister during his tour in Melbourne.

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Photographs: World Day of Prayer for Burma was organised by the Brunswick Church in Melbourne on 23 March 1997. There were a ceremony of pray for Burma by three different religions: Christian, Buddhism and Islam, photo exhibition, photo slide show, documentary (video tapes) show, Burmese traditional dances and short drama based on the 1988 pro-democracy movement by Burmese students.

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