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All Burma Students' Democratic Front
Armed opposition group in Myanmar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The All Burma Students' Democratic Front (Burmese: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာကျောင်းသားများဒီမိုကရက်တစ်တပ်ဦး; abbreviated ABSDF or မကဒတ) is an opposition group in Myanmar (also known as Burma). It was founded on 1 November 1988, after the 8888 protests in Yangon. The group's leadership consists mostly of former student exiles.
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာကျောင်းသားများဒီမိုကရက်တစ်တပ်ဦး | |
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Leaders | Than Khe Myo Win Sonny Mahinder |
Dates of operation | 1 November 1988 (1988-11-01) – present |
Headquarters | Manerplaw (until 1995)[1] |
Active regions | Kachin State Kayin State Magway Region Mandalay Region Mon State Sagaing Region Shan State China–Myanmar border India–Myanmar border Myanmar–Thailand border |
Ideology | Liberal democracy[2] Federalism |
Size | 1,000 (1998)[3] 600 (2016)[2] |
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Battles and wars | Internal conflict in Myanmar |
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The ABSDF operates an armed wing, which has fought alongside other armed opposition groups in Myanmar, such as the Kachin Independence Army and the Karen National Liberation Army.