In this week’s Tea House column, writer Khet Mar profiles Dagon Tayar, a 94-year-old Burmese peace activist, writer and editor. Dagon Tayar has been part of Burma’s fight for first independence and then democracy.
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Khet Mar reflects on her friend Win Maw, a renowned musician and video journalist, who spent years in prison for his support of Aung San Suu Kyi and his involvement in documenting the Saffron Revolution in 2007. He was released in January, 2012.
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In this interview, Hnin Pan Ein details her life as a daughter and wife of political prisoners, explains the difficulties of being a writer under censorship, and gives her opinion on the condition of free speech in Burma.
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On January 13, 2012 the Burmese government released scores of prisoners, including prisoners of conscience from the ’88 Generation Students. Khet Mar, the poet and former political prisoner, wrote this personal account of the amnesty and the friends who were now finally free.
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The Art of Freedom film festival awarded the Best Short Documentary prize to “Click in Fear,” a film about journalist Law Eh Soe. Burma’s first film festival featured uncensored films, some of which are critical of the former military regime.
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Reporter Raymund Villanueva describes the current situation for journalists in the Philippines, explains what precautions journalists are taking to do their work safely, and describes what he calls the “tragic” state of democracy in his country.
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For this video, Burmese exiled writer Khet Mar posed two questions to school children living in Rangoon: “Why is it important to say what you want to say?” and “If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?”
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