This is my last week at the BLC. I'm sad. I'm really enjoying all the people here.
Today, I learned that one of the men in the legal analysis office used to be the sectional leader of the NLD, Burma's main opposition political party. He lived with Aung San Suu Kyi for over two years, was her close friend. Then he brought me a book about political prisoners who've died in jail. And introduced me to his friends that were memorialized inside. All 10 of them.
Only a few bodies were returned to the families. One autopsy showed extensive nerve damage, another burns. One victim's leg was completely shattered.
He told me today that he was also a political prisoner. When he was captured, he was tortured for a full month.
And I'm not sure what to do with that information. But it somehow seemed like an appropriate way to introduce two Aung San Suu Kyi quotes that really struck me:
"Please use your liberty to help promote ours."
"They cannot win because all they have are guns."
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