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Win Tin, whose funeral is held in Rangoon on Wednesday, remained unbroken despite nearly two decades in prison, and told his jailers to go to hell.

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright 188 By Moe Zaw Oo 21 April 2021 On the seventh anniversary of the death of Myanmar’s prominent democracy activist and journalist U Win Tin, The Irrawaddy revisits an article about him by the current deputy foreign minister of Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), U Moe Zaw Oo, who originally wrote under the penname of Kay Latt in 2007. Like the English poet William Blake, who wrote the immortal line “Tiger, tiger, burning bright,” Burma’s long-serving political prisoner, writer and journalist Win Tin used the image of the proud jungle predat...

Myanmar Activists Launch Blue-Shirt Campaign to Demand Freedom for Detainees A blue-shirt campaign has been launched in Myanmar on Apr. 21, to call for the release of 3,300 detainees held by the junta. 1.1k By The Irrawaddy 21 April 2021 A blue-shirt campaign has been launched in Myanmar on Wednesday to call for the release of 3,300 detainees held by the junta. In the latest campaign against the military regime, blue-shirted protesters posted photos with a raised hand displaying the name of a detainee abducted since the Feb. 1 coup. The blue shirts commemorate the renowned pro-democracy act...