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fr NPR - Burmese Rohingya subjected to new black slave trade conditions by traffickers

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec13/rohingya_08-15.html

On 25th anniversary of 8-8-88, US extends ban on Burmese gem imports -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/41581

16 year old Ma Win Mar Oo who was one of thousands gunned down in 1988

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/41434#comment-34552

Just left on Irrawaddy site ref their excellent (but ten year old) interview of Christopher Gunness of 1988 fame -

Just left this on Irrawaddy site ref their excellent (but 10 years old) interview of Christopher Gunness see below -

This is an excellent interview and Gunness is a decent truth speaker - a true hero - However, the interview, though for the history books, is already ten years old -

Where is he now?  Why did he leave BBC? 

What about that woman who was head of BBC Burmese and fired allegedly because she was a double agent - I have it on the best authority from an international correspondent via a close friend, that a dissident was killed due to her leak, and she is now on board of Prospect Burma -

What's this??

You should have tried for a new interview of Gunness - It's your job. 

KMK

My mini review of Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie's memoir -

Oh, it is excellent - although written in 3rd person, somehow he manages to recall all the trauma and details of the fatwa period - and is completely honest in what he says about himself. It is amazing that he lived to tell the story and also managed to live a somewhat normal life through it all. Also the "normal" deaths among his close ones, while he under a fatwa survived.

Has the unerring eye and total recall of a born writer.

Kyi May Kaung