A year on from a military coup, a new book of Myanmar poetry and prose captures the rage and resilience of a people locked in a fight against dictatorship.
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In Suharto’s Anti-Communist Purge, Prisoners Made an Island Bloom
In his 2020 memoir “Pearls on the Prairie, A Survivor’s Story”, the late author Tedjabayu recounts his 14 years as a political prisoner and shares part of Indonesia’s history that government-sanctioned schoolbooks do not tell.
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