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Mathieson on the Burmese gulag

January 7th, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment

If we do not loudly and strongly condemn this draconian process, hundreds of Burma’s leading thinkers and performers will disappear into the country’s squalid gulag, and the ephemeral promise of a liberal and free Burma could well be lost to another generation.
- Extracted from David Scott Mathieson, “The world looks away as Burma mocks democracy”, [...]

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