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ON 17 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on May 17, 2008
1155 : Birth of Jien, Japanese poet and historian who died on 28 October 1225 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jien
1336 : Death of Go-Fushimi, the 93rd emperor of Japan (1298-1301), born on 5 April 1288 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Fushimi
1917 : Death of Charles Brooke, second White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) since 3 August 1868 http://www.lonker.net/travel_borneo_7.htm
1940 : Birth of Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/justices/cj.puno.php
1954 : In the Philippines, Luis Taruc, who has been excluded from the Philippine Communist Party, surrenders http://cityofsanfernando.blogspot.com/2005/05/ka-luis-m-taruc-june-21-
1913-may-4.html
1964 : In Burma, all the 50 and 100 kyat banknotes are demonetized without compensation
1967 : In Hong Kong, beginning of fights between police and Maoist demonstrators till May 23
1980 : General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress students demonstration http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ChunDooH.html
1981 : In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina comes back after exile in India http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/biography/hasina.html
1992 : In Thailand, the so called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the Thai government declares a state of emergency and military troops open fire http://angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/blackmay/blackmay01.shtml
1993 : In Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe becomes prime minister till August 1994 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremasinghe
1995 : The Chinese authorities arrest the six year old Gedhun Choekuyi Nyima, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the successor of the 10th Panchen Lama, and his family. Since nobody knows what happened to them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qndcB389A
1997 : In South Korea, Kim Hyung-chul, son of the President Kim Dae-jung is arrested as involved in the Hanbo scandal
2000 : In Indonesia, for the first time, 24 soldiers are jailed for massacres of civilians in Aceh
2004 : In Myanmar, the National Convention, in charge to write a new constitution, convened after more than eight years of suspension
2007 : In Thailand, the Defense National Council orders three private radio stations to be closed because they gave interviews to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
2007 : A train, for the first time, cross the border between the two Koreas on few meters
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