Officials talk education, reconciliation on National Day
The National League for Democracy’s patron championed the importance of education while acknowledging that some are eager for more rapid improvements to the system at a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of National Day at the party’s headquarters on November 24. “In this era, there are many challenges and much pressure facing education,” U Tin Oo said. “We need to try hard to establish a democratic, federal Union with leadership from the NLD along with its leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.” National Day commemorates the first student resistance protests at then-Yangon University, boycotting the British administration’s Yangon University Act of 1920. The boycott is seen as the beginning of the student protest movement that was at the forefront of then-Myanmar’s independence struggle. The anniversary of the protest is held annually on the 10th day after the full-moon day of Tazaungmone. U Tin Oo acknowledged that the NLD government has been criticised by somefor a lack of notable change during its nascent term in office.
