In Myanmar ist der Dichter, Journalist und Politiker U Win Tin gestorben

Der am 12. März 1930 in Gyobingauk Township, Pegu Division, British Burma geborene Politiker, Journalist und Dichter U Win Tin (Bild) ist am 21. April 2014 in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) gestorben.

Foto: Htoo Tay Zar – http://openmyanmar.tumblr.com/ – CC-Lizenz: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported – Zur Originaldatei: http://en.wikipedia.org

Er war und bleibt Myanmars moralische Instanz.

Peter Achten

http://www.journal21.ch/tod-einer-moralische-instanz

In seinem letzten Lebensjahr führte Win Tin ein Gespräch mit einem seiner Peiniger. Auf eine Entschuldigung hatte er vergeblich gehofft. Dennoch verfiel der humorvolle Dissident nie in Bitterkeit.

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/auslandnachrichten/burmas-unbeugsamer-dissident-1.18287702

Der prominente birmanische Demokratie-Aktivist Win Tin ist tot. Der Weggefährte von Oppositionsführerin Aung San Suu Kyi sei am Montagmorgen mit 84 Jahren gestorben, teilte Suu Kyis Partei Nationale Liga für Demokratie (NLD) mit, der auch Win angehörte. Der Journalist war der am längsten inhaftierte politische Häftling des Landes und hatte nach der Niederschlagung der Demokratiebewegung 1989 fast zwanzig Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht.

afp / http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/birma-demokrat-win-tin-und-freund-von-aung-san-suu-kyi-gestorben/9784914.html

«U Win Tin was the exemplar of dignified courage and principle against decades of brutal military rule,» said Kenneth Roth, executive director. «Human Rights Watch campaigned for his release for many years. We are deeply saddened by his death – an irreplaceable loss for Burma’s human rights community.»

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/22/burma-tribute-u-win-tin

To keep his sanity, Mr. Win Tin smuggled fragments of brick into his cell and ground them into paste to write poems and philosophy on his cell walls. «I could not bow down to them,» he said in an interview with The New York Times in 2009, the year after his unexpected release.

Douglas Martin

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/world/asia/u-win-tin-writer-jailed-by-myanmar-junta-dies.html?_r=0

In 2001, Win Tin was awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for his efforts to defend and promote the right to freedom of expression. That year, he was also awarded the World Association of Newspapers› Golden Pen of Freedom Award. From 2006 onward, he could not receive visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

At 81, he was in a poor state of health, exacerbated by his treatment in prison, which included torture, inadequate access to medical treatment, being held in a cell designed for military dogs, without bedding, and being deprived of food and water for long periods of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_Tin

Mehr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_Tin

http://www.ifex.org/burma/2006/03/10/u_win_tin_denied_red_cross_visits/

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5712&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html