PERSONS OF THE YEARS

Jan 29th, 2008

PERSONS OF THE YEARS

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PERSON OF THE YEAR 2008

BURMA DIGEST magazine, with the support of our readers’ online votes, has chosen ‘Burma’s human rights defence lawyers’ as Burma’s Persons of the Year 2008, for the following reasons _

  • to highlight the incredibly long prison sentences recently given to all kinds of pro-democracy activists, including not only politicians but also students, monks, musicians, poets, comedians, bloggers, lawyers, etc

  • to highlight regime’s attempts to eliminate ALL political opposition before going to elections in 2010

  • to highlight human rights lawyers’ courageous efforts to legally defend pro-democracy activists facing severe persecution in regime’s kangaroo courts

  • to highlight regime’s TOTAL & COMPLETE persecution, jailing not only pro-democracy activists but also their lawyers as well

  • to highlight essential need for continued legal defence of pro-democracy activists, despite regime’s crack down on human rights defence lawyers

  • to highlight the need to establish credible free and autonomous judicial and legal systems in Burma

  • to highlight the “Rule of Law” being an indispensable ingredient in building any respectable form of democracy

  • Runners Up for POY Burma 2008

  • POY 2008 & Hopeless in the Lawless Land

  • Burma Lawyer’s Testimony Highlights Distorted Justice

  • Human Rights Require Stronger Institutions

  • To create a good government that values fair Justice and Rule of Law (Burmese)

  • Wrong Legal Actions and Grievances (Burmese)

  • Jailed Lawyer Who Defended Pro-democracy Activists in Burma (Burmese)

  • Harsh and Cruel Sentences to Democracy Activists

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    PERSON OF THE YEAR 2007

    Editorial

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    Person of the Year 2007 in Burma

    u-gambirafamily.jpg The monk on the right is U Gambira

    Runners-up in 2007

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    PERSON OF THE YEAR 2006

    kma.JPG on the right is Ko Mya Aye

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    One Response to “PERSONS OF THE YEARS”

    • #1 yuyuthu Says:
      June 30th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

      hello
      I would like to know about the source of 7th July .
      I know that one of students was take of from his hostel
      for he make bad action with warder.So I would like to know
      what action he had made.The authority declared the unfair
      hostel rules.I would like to know what kinds of these rules.
      And then I would like to know details of the source of 7th July
      students movement at 1962 in Myanmar version.So please
      help me to know.

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