Myanmar Oral History Project - life stories

U Win Htein born 1941 - a current and former prisoner of conscience - Episode 5 being an extract from Chapter 4 entitled "Jailbird" (pages 206 to 213) of his autobiography and is read by his youngest child, his daughter Chit Suu.


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U Win Htein is an elder politician of the National League for Democracy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's right hand man, a former parliamentarian, army captain and businessman.

U Win Htein has spent 20 years of his life in prison for his belief in democracy.

He has written his autobiography entitled "Win Htein's story for posterity: Burma's odyssey from tyranny to quasi-democracy" which can be purchased as a ebook from many online booksellers such as https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/win-hteins-story-for-posterity-win-htein/1140822639.

It is extremely hard to believe that at the age of 79 for speaking out against the coup of 1 February, 2021 U Win Htein was sentenced in late October last year for sedition and received a 20 year prison sentence.  He is currently serving this sentence at a jail in Mandalay.  

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Peter Church

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