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Residents of Rangoon go about their day by the Sule Pagoda.
Photograph for TIME by Kemal Jufri / Imaji

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Residents of Rangoon go about their day near the Sule Pagoda, a millennia-old temple that was a rallying point for failed democracy protests in 1988 and 2007.

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