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Burmese advocate Bo Kyi calls on the world to help political prisoners in Burma

April 19, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nan Nan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly During the seven and a half years that Bo Kyi was in prison, he was beaten, tortured,

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2012, AAPP, Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung Sun Suu Kyi, Bo Kyi, Current Burma, Jeanne Hallacy, Mae Sot, Min Ko Naing, Nan Nan Liu, National League, Northwest Asian Weekly, Political Prisoners, Seattle, Thailand, United States, Vol 31 No 17 | April 21 - April 27

Reader’s Corner: Forced to flee: voices and visions from the Thai-Burma border, put on paper

December 2, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Berg For Northwest Asian Weekly In September 2007, the world’s attention was riveted by video footage of never-ending columns of saffron-robed monks streaming through the streets of Burma. Overnight, the government had removed all fuel subsidies, spiking food prices. Moved by the people’s despair, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks took to the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Erika Berg, Human Rights, Mae Sot, Metta Sutta, Reader Corner Forced, Seattle, Thai Burma, Thailand, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, attention

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