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Burmese Poets in Jail (r)



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.
> 
> News and Information Bureau
> All Burma Students League
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