June 7, 2002

Searching for an Education in Repressive Myanmar

By JEN LIN-LIU

Under a military regime, universities are open again, but learning is hard to come by

Mei Zhu was far from thrilled the day student protests erupted on her campus. She had arrived for her economics classes at Regional College, on the northern outskirts of this capital city, when she saw her classmates sitting in the streets, carrying placards, and shouting pro-democracy slogans. She calculated the possible outcomes, none of which were good.

The protests -- which spread to

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