as of yesterday 24 october (and united nations day) daw aung san suu kyi will have spent 12 of the last 18 years under detention...she may be the best known of myanmar's prisoners of conscience, but she is far from the only one...amnesty international believes that, even before the recent violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, there were more than 1,150 political prisoners in the country...
prisoners of conscience among these include senior political representatives of the ethnic minorities as well as members of the national league of democracy and student activist groups...
to mark the 18th year of aung san suu kyi's persecution by the myanmar military, amnesty international is working, through bloggers like myself, to draw the world's attention to four people who symbolise all those in detention and suffering persecution in myanmar...these include aung san suu kyi herself; u win tin, myanmar's longest-serving prisoner of conscience; u khun htun oo, who is serving a 93 year sentence; and zaw htet ko ko, who was arrested after participating in the recent demonstrations in the country...
because telling the stories of actual prisoners of conscience is a very powerful way to connect you to the reality of the repression in myanmar i will bring them to you over the next four days, one at a time, to help humanize the headlines, and hopefully, move you to take action...
so come back each day through monday to "hear" their stories...
peace out <3
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