Thursday, May 06, 2010

NLD's U Win Tin unfazed as his party forced to dissolve.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8664741.stm

U Win Tin just celebrated his 80th birthday when his prison memoir, What's That? A Human Hell! was released.

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...