Burmese youth have a powerful legacy of political leadership. From General Aung San and his anti-colonial agitators to the student-led protests of 1988 that changed Burma forever, young people have long led from the front. Now, a new politically charged generation has the chance to vote for the first time.
Burma goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that is set to cap of four years of top-down political and economic change in the country.
The vote is a chance to solidify progress made, and set course for the future. No group has more at stake than Burma’s youth. Young people who could be set to inherit a newly democratic nation.
