Saturday, December 13, 2008

Burma message from Edith Mirante and Scott Bateman on salon.com

http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/politics/2008/05/22/bateman_burmarap/index.html

Edith Mirante drew attention to Burmese human rights abuses in the early 90s, before anyone else did, distributing xerox copies of reports, some of which she wrote herself, with her mother as her only helper.

Bravo Edith, you give us Strength.

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...