Late in the morning on May 27, 2009, a shouting throng raised their voices at the gate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees compound in Mae Sot, Thailand...

By August 8, 1988, Thiha Yarzar, the twenty-three year old political activist and student leader had been appointed secretary of the National Student Union. On that infamous day the people of Burma confronted the ruling military ...

Thiha Yarzar was housed in cell 51, in a cell range of 60 white concrete cells with iron bars for a door. There was nothing inside but a thin bamboo mat for a bed and two ceramic bowls for a toilet...