“I was sent to prison before puberty even hit my life,” Htey Win, 62, of Baldwin Park, Calif., told The Epoch Times. “And it was the most infamous prison in all of Burma.” In 1974, Win, who was barely 15 years old, was sent to Insein Prison in the city of Yangon, Burma (also called Myanmar) after she was arrested by the Burmese Army for speaking against inefficacies in the government during a strike she attended. “One needs democracy, but the Burma’s military government is doing things wrongly. America is the right way even when it comes to women’s rights. In Burma they don’t know women’s rights like they do here,” she said. After she was sent to prison with no trial, she was given an additional 11 months in her term for not signing a military statement that described her as committing a crime she did not commit. “Why …
Burmese Refugee Recalls Atrocities Witnessed in Prison at 15 Years Old
January 4, 2022
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