Author Ko Ko Thett remembers Rugged Gold, a poetry chapbook series produced by the students of Yangon Institute of Technology, a university which was shut down due to student protests.
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Despite the historic victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the parliamentary elections, Burmese poet Ko Ko Thett argues that this should not be cause for over-jubilation as there is still a long road ahead for democracy to take a foothold.
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January 13 was the third wholesale amnesty and commutation of sentences under the new government yet an estimated one thousand prisoners of conscience remain in Burmese jails.
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Poet, translator and political commentator Ko Ko Thett reviews the documentary film They Call It Myanmar, which he describes as “sobering even for a Burmese” for its graphic portrayal of destitution in Burma.
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