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02/10/10
A Maryland man arrested in Burma last fall has been sentenced to three years of hard labor for using forged documents and carrying undeclared currency, the Washington Post reports. Burmese-born Nyi Nyi had returned to Rangoon to visit his mother, an imprisoned democracy activist who has cancer, when he was apprehended and accused of attempting to stir up political unrest.
Nyi Nyi was sentenced to five years in prison, which was commuted to three years with hard labor. A U.S. Embassy spokesman strongly criticized the ruling, saying it was "unjustified" and "politically motivated."
Nyi Nyi is a well-known democracy activist who was involved in a 1988 student uprising in Burma that was put down by the military junta and left 3,000 people dead. He was granted political asylum by the United States and became a citizen in 2002. He lives in Montgomery County, Md.
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beckjr2000
10:45AM Feb 10th 2010
Now all things considered he's getting off easy! Burma with it's military government is not exactly know for it "progressive" attitude!
"Nyi Nyi is a well-known democracy activist who was involved in a 1988 student uprising in Burma that was put down by the military junta and left 3,000 people dead. He was granted political asylum by the United States and became a citizen in 2002."
If you insist on playing with poison snakes, should we be upset if you get biten?
"Nyi Nyi is a well-known democracy activist who was involved in a 1988 student uprising in Burma that was put down by the military junta and left 3,000 people dead. He was granted political asylum by the United States and became a citizen in 2002."
If you insist on playing with poison snakes, should we be upset if you get biten?
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Cooper
11:52AM Feb 10th 2010
So, this is NOT the same guy who popped in on Aung San Suu Kyi, right? Or is it?
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(-1) YOU SICK HUMAN
12:38PM Feb 10th 2010
What is our illustrious Scretary of State doing for this guy? He is a Democracy advocate thrown in prison by a military regime and we just watch it happen? Makes you wonder why he's an advocate for Democracy.
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(1) yousauid
1:27PM Feb 10th 2010
Why didnlt he work tobring his mother to the US. I canlt imagine leaving to risk something like this.
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(1) jjoekiker7
5:30AM Feb 28th 2010
Gee...so he goes back to the country that has imprisoned his MOTHER for her political views, a country ruled by a military dictatorship that just KILLED 3,000 innocent people, then thru thousands in prison, he needs to be jailed for his blatant act of stupidity and castrated so he does not reproduce, shut up and do your time idiot!!!!
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(0) Tim
10:20AM Mar 7th 2010
spoken like a true conservative.
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