In this respect , the result of the 1962 Rangoon University protests ushered a new era of underground student activism in which open mass student involvement in national politics erupted Process_start only sporadically , most prominently during the student protests of the mid-1970s and during the 8888 Uprising in 1988 .

Kingsmill was the climax of a string of tit-for-tat killings in the area during the mid-1970s .