"8-8-88 Uprising and Me" by Ye Min Htun

(This
is the direct translation of Ye Min Htun’s ‘Four 8 Uprising and Me’.)  





Practicing
politics in Burma is an extremely high risk profession. A politician in dictatorial
Burma could be arrested any time and during the long BSPP (Burma Socialist
Program Party) rule it could be outright dangerous for a politician to be arrested.
Since I was very young I’d heard the tragic stories of many