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Mr. Win suffered from respiratory problems and other ailments that largely were left untreated during his 19 years in prison before his release in 2008. He had been one of the worlds longest-detained reporters, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

For Mr. Win, who came of age in Burma under British rule, the urge to dissent was long ingrained in his character. As a teenager, he tried to join Gen. Aung Sans Burmese resistance army but was politely rebuffed by the man who would become a national hero during the independence struggle.

Aung San plainly said, Stick with your studies. There are many people to fight. The time will come for you, Mr. Win once recalled. Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, was gunned down shortly before independence was achieved in 1948.

Burma, also known as Myanmar, descended into absolute military rule starting in 1962 and became a pariah state because of the juntas human rights violations and repression of civic society.

Mr. Win served as top editor of the independent Burmese newspaper Hanthawati in Mandalay before dictator Ne Win shuttered it in the late 1970s.

The reason I became a politician is because of military governments, Mr. Win told the Agence France-Presse news service last year. They seized the newspapers and publishing houses. As I have many contacts in politics, I reached into politics.

He became part of the circle of intellectual advisers that coalesced around Suu Kyi, who called for nonviolent resistance and who was embraced as the countrys greatest hope in generations for freedom. Mr. Win was nicknamed Saya, or teacher, an indicator of his esteem in anti-military politics.

The National League for Democracy won an overwhelming victory in the 1990 general election but was not permitted by the junta to govern. The crackdown on NLD leaders had already begun.

Suu Kyi, who spent much of her life abroad before returning to Burma in 1988 to care for her dying mother, was placed under house arrest for much of the period between 1989 to 2010.

Mr. Win was thrown into prison in 1989, having been charged with being a member of the banned Communist Party of Burma.

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Guwahati | Updated 4/22/2014 9:45:32 AM IST

Guwahati: Charging Trinamool Congress with throttling democracy in West Bengal by intimidating voters, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said the Left will do better in the state if polling is done without any fear.

He also said that TMC's dream to create a base in Tripura "will never be true."

"Democracy is being throttled in West Bengal by Trinamool Congress. In three years of their rule, 145 Left leaders were killed, 44,000 Left supporters were forced to leave their homes and our organisational structures were burnt to ashes," the CPI(M) Politburo member alleged.

People were being threatened to shift their political allegiance and could not vote in a free and fair manner during the panchayat elections also, he alleged.

"However, we are seeing a positive sign. People have started reacting to the call of alternative forces. The silver lining is that, if people come out to vote without fear, then we will perform much better than the last Lok Sabha elections," Sarkar told PTI in an interview.

On post-poll alliances with parties, the senior CPI(M) leader said the Left was open to non-Congress and non-BJP parties, including with Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). PTI

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After reading an article in the Other Voices column about the 10 steps to socialism, when do any of you think this started in 2008? That is a laugh. It just means that you arent paying attention until someone is in office that you dont think represents your interests.

It all started a long time before the two presidents who decided that their friends werent rich enough. The president isnt the one who makes the rules. It is the 500 and some people that have more control over the government than he has.

Anyway, as I remember, there was only one of those programs started of should I say on the wish list of the current president. That would be affordable health care.

The others came before he was in office or maybe before he was even thought of. Oh, by he way, it is time for another round of political promises to be made then broken. Yes, it is election time again and that means it would be time to eliminate some more worthless people from government. Dont get me wrong, I have never said that they were all bad, just some of them.

After my last letter, one of my friends said it was a good letter but he didnt think that it did any good. I cant tell you if it did or didnt, it all depends on whether people pay attention. I do, however, think that a couple of them have made a difference.

I also think that not very many people paid too much attention to their history classes in school, otherwise they would know more about the political process. As I always had a big interest in history, I paid attention.

While people are so sure that all of this seems to have started with this current administration, maybe they should look back to where free trade started, then to a few administrations after that, especially the father and son act that was previous to this administration.

I dont think that anybody would ever suspect that family would do anything wrong. I see that another brother wants the job.

Roger Roesch

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