Rohingya poet and genocide survivor, Mayyu Ali, recites a poem from "Exodus" and talks about his new biography published in French called "The Erasure."

BURNING ALIVE

By Mayyu Ali

The sky is silent

The earth is silent

The blade on the skin of my throat

I scream out and it echoes from hill to hill

Some say, victims can lie

See the wounds and scars on our bodies

Parents keep yet clothes of killed sons

Orphans keep the skulls of their parents

I watched the blood streaming down

Where my husband and son were consumed

Next, I watched

My baby was thrown into the bonfire

Burnt to fuel

Burnt to ashes

Disappeared in the thin air.

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Jaivet Ealom shares his story about the daring escape he made from a prison-like life in Burma, to becoming a Rohingya refugee held at Manus Island Prison, to ending up in Canada. All from his memoir "Escape from Manus Prison: One Man's Daring Quest For Freedom."

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Ronan Lee, author of "Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech" discusses his book and why it was banned by the junta in Burma.

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American journalist and author Patrick Winn talks about his book "Hello Shadowlands" and the chapter that he wrote profiling the controversial work of Pat Jasan in Kachin State, Burma.

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Human rights activist Thinzar Shunlei Yi shares her story about the book published in French "Mon Combat Contre La Junte Birmane [My Fight Against Burma's Junta]."

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Ma Thida talks about publishing her memoir "Prisoner of Conscience: My Steps Through Insein." 

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Myanmar writer Ma Nandar translated "We Should All Be Feminists" into Burmese in 2017.

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Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman discuss their new poetry and essay anthology "Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop The Spring." It's available to download, for free, at Ethos Books.

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Australian journalist and author Jessica Mudditt addresses the backlash she faced after publishing her memoir "Our Home in Myanmar" following the 2021 coup. The Burmese language version is available as a free download.

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