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Multi-Ethnic Nation Ignores Rights

Saw Yan Naing | Monday, October 31, 2011

Burma | Human Rights

This article originally appears on the Thailand-based magazine, <em>The Irrawaddy</em>.

About author Saw Yan Naing is an ethnic Karen journalist from Burma, currently living and working as senior reporter at Thailand-based <em>The Irrawaddy Magazine</em>, a leading Burmese news agency in exile. He focuses in reporting about human rights, press freedom, democracy, violence, and armed conflicts in Burma. He can be reached at yannaing@irrawaddy.org or fittiger@gmail.com.

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