Op-Ed in Hartford Courant
Posted on May 12, 2008, by Hanna Ingber Win, under International.
Please check out my op-ed in Tuesday’s Hartford Courant. I wrote a story about daily life in Rangoon after last week’s cyclone based on email exchanges with an extended family member, called Myat.
The next day, five days after the cyclone, Myat told me that people were forced to leave shelter areas “because they don’t like ppl gathering.” The Burmese government is so afraid of political unrest that even during a massive humanitarian crisis, its focus is on ensuring that victims do not organize, and relief areas do not become hotbeds for anti-government demonstrations.
