Forty Million Hostages 'That's basically what the whole population of Burma is - hostages,' says a Burmese man in tonight's programme. For the people of Burma
(recently renamed Myanmar), the last few years have been gruelling. An estimated
10,000 people were killed in the crackdown which followed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988. Hopes were raised by free elections last year, only to be dashed, as the military dictatorship imprisoned the elected leaders and continued its decades-long repression and abuse of human rights. Everyman documents those abuses through the graphic testimony of refugees. Producer Catharine Seddon Editor Jane Drabble
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