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Burmese Poets in Jail (r)
- Subject: Burmese Poets in Jail (r)
- From: nin@xxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:42:00
Dear ABSL,
Please let me add one more poet in jail. He is U Tin Aye Kyi,
former RIT student, poet-name: Maung Hmyine Lwin (Innwa).
He is known as, Ko Hmyine. He was sentenced to 20 years, I
will come up with more info asap.
With metta and solidarity,
NiNi
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>
> News of Burmese Poets being arrested
>
>
> 1. Burma's famous Poets U Kyi Aung from Innwa, Mandalay
> Division and Poet Ko Lay (Innwa Goan Ye) were arrested by
> the SLORC recently in Innwa Township and being detained
> without any trial. Their crime was that they interviewed,
> without permission from the concerned authorities, with some
> people from Innwa Market (Innwa Township, Mandalay
> Division) to expose the life of ordinary Burmese people.
>
> 2. Phyar Poan Ni Lon Oo (who was working as Assistant
> Editor in the popular Cherry Magazine) was ousted from the
> job because of his political activities for the NLD. He is
> under trial.
>
> 3. New Style-Poet Aung Zin Min is imprisoned recently by
> the SLORC for his anti-SLORC writings.
>
>
> The military authorities, in the past, censored any
> anti-SLORC writings either by covering with ink or tearing
> the whole page. However, due to the international criticism
> for these undemocratic acts, the Censor Board of SLORC now
> force the publisher to re-publish the book or magazine
> without the particular literature that the Board thinks
> should not be read by the public. Although the authors of
> the particular literature are given money for their
> writings by the publishing houses, their writings are not
> published. Due to various restrictions of the authorities,
> many publishing houses in Burma are being closed down. One
> of them is Cherry Magazine which is one of Burma's popular
> magazine.
>
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> All Burma Students League
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