Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Movie star Kyaw Thu's Free Funeral Society buries writer Dagon Tar Yar -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/42506
in Aung Ban, Shan States, Burma.

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...