It was reported in the past week that the Burmese monk, Ashin Gambira had been arrested by the authorities following reports of an interview where he was alleged to have stated that the Burmese government still had the “characteristics of a dictatorship”. Gambira has past form having been arrested in 2007 following an uprising against the national government.
The President Thein Sein-led government threatens to undo its attempts at repairing its reputation which has included sanctioning the release of scores of political prisoners by this latest re-arrest of a recently freed political prisoner. Ashin Gambira is this week’s 1worldinternational Global Personality of the Week for his relentless campaign for human rights in Burma.
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