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Family life for a Burmese dissident

June 19th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment

I have been separated from my daughter for nearly ten months. A midnight knock at our door in August last year changed our lives dramatically. The military junta’s security forces took my husband Kyaw Min Yu (also known as Jimmy) on the night of August 21, 2007. He is a leader of the prominent dissident [...]

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