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Cut junta s lifelines to prevent Myanmar s total collapse

Cut junta s lifelines to prevent Myanmar s total collapse
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Unsung Hero of Myanmar s  88 Uprising Dies of COVID-19

Unsung Hero of Myanmar’s ’88 Uprising Dies of COVID-19 The Irrawaddy revisits a 2014 profile of U Nay Min, who kept the world informed of the military’s brutal crackdown on democracy protesters in 1988 and was later jailed. 1.5k By The Irrawaddy 17 July 2021 U Nay Min, an unsung hero of Myanmar’s pro-democracy uprising in 1988, died of COVID-19 at the age of 75 on Friday night. He served as an unofficial stringer supplying information about the protests and government crackdowns in 1988 to Christopher Gunness from the BBC’s World Service, who was based in neighboring Bangladesh as an international correspondent. For his reporting he was arrested twice, spending 16 years in prison. The BBC later appointed him as its Myanmar correspondent, but he never received the appointment letter sent via the British Embassy in Yangon, as he had been arrested and imprisoned.

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