Articles in Political Imprisonment
Interview with Khin Cho Myint, a former political prisoner:
Khin Cho Myint was detained for five years and nine months, because of her activity in a democratic student union.
I didn’t hope for 10 years. At the time the military intelligence asked me if I could guess my sentence. I told them about six months. They where laughing.
Where you treated different as a political prisoner?
Yes, we where kept separated from the other prisoners. We couldn’t see our family, when other prisoners could. Other prisoners could also possess stuff like food. They could buy it from the prison staff. We couldn’t buy food. We didn’t have anything.
Interview with Aung Kgaw: Aung Kgaw has spent 14 years in prison, because he was a member of a democratic party in Burma.
AAPPB (2006) Eight Seconds of Silence:
The Burmese government, like most dictatorships, does it best to hide the crimes it commits against its people. Perhaps on some level it knows that what it does is shameful. But more likely, it views secrecy as another means to torment its persecuted opponents. It tells them: “Not only will we harm you physically, but no one in the world will know we did this to you. No one will know that you suffered. No one will know that you even excisted. And if they do not know, they will not care.”
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