KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Himal Southasia--prison systems --

https://www.himalmag.com/myanmar-prison-junta-coup-political-prisoner-insein/

I met a former political prisoner from Iran too--a woman, a Christian who told me female prisoners were raped in notorious Evan Prison "so they would no longer be virgins and go to Heaven."

Kyi May Kaung.

1-17-2024

KyiMayKaung

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Himal Southasia--prison systems --

Special post--Gunter Grass's poem--Do something, Do Something. Translated by Michael Hamburger

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