"OUR HEADS ARE BLOODY BUT UNBOWED ... - Article 19

Bertil Lintner, Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy (London, White Lotus,1990).Institute for Asian Democracy, Towards Democracy in Burma (Washington, 1992).International Human Rights Law Group, Report on the Myanmar Election(Washington, May 1990).ENDNOTES1. See section 10 below, Political Control of Education Prior to 1988.2. The renaming of Burma as "Myanmar" by the SLORC in June 1989 has yet tobecome widely accepted colloquial or international usage. The title is alsorejected by many ethnic minorities as an ethnic Burman name for the country.3. In State of Fear: Censorship in Burma (December 1991), ARTICLE 19highlighted the SLORC's draconian press and publishing laws and the arrest ofhundreds of writers and intellectuals.4. Amnesty International, Myanmar: `No law at all' (London, 1992), p.16.5. A few medical and other specialist departments quietly opened earlier.6. Mon is the language by which both Buddhism and writing were introducedto Burma.