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Regime secret police forces and military intelligence stormed two bedroom apartments in Min Ma Naing public apartment complex in the middle of the day in late 1988. A Man in forties was arrested from his hideout and while he was dragged out to the military truck. His head was cut and face was swelling. This is what I saw him last time while I was supposed to meet him his apartment for interviewing.
He was phoned by BBC world service reporter Christopher Gunness while he was arrested later we realized. “Without U Nay Min, I couldn’t get any news from Burma” Christopher Gunness stressed in Chiang Mai after fifteen years of 1988. We talked about how we involved in the 1988 and how we communicated each other through U Nay Min.
After BSPP has changed its face as SLORC in 1988, they arrested BBC stringer U Nay Min before the on lookers at his hideout at Min Ma Naing public apartment complex. He was later sentenced for long serving and his name was fainted out. Was a quiet lawyer and able to speak English, he met BBC reporter in Rangoon turned a reporter. He decided to send news for BBC reporter without looking for any financial benefit but he wanted to send the stories of what really happened in Burma through BBC to the world.
I still hear U Nay Min’s fearless words “I might not be considered as a real reporter but this is only chance to communicate the world, no matter we might get killed or arrested, when we witnessed citizens, students, monks and women who sacrificed for hope of freedom and democracy.”
Regime accused and launching propaganda against pro democracy activists and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was not new. Since 1988, hostility and full of mendacious propagandas to marginalize the political struggle for the people in the regime mouth piece New Lights of Myanmar. Yet, regime feared not only Daw Aung San Suu Kyi but media as a permanent enemy.
