2008 Report on International Religious Freedom in MyanmarInternational Religious Freedom Report 2008Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Highly repressive, authoritarian military regimes have ruled the country since 1962. Constitutional protection of religious freedom has not existed since 1988, after the armed forces brutally suppressed massive prodemocracy demonstrations and abrogated the Constitution. In 1990 prodemocracy parties won a majority of seats in a free and