Activists put Burma's grim jails on display

A simple museum tucked away on the Thai-Burmese border re-creates the infamous prisons. By Anand Gopal | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the September 19, 2008 edition Mae Sot, Thailand - Iron shackles lie heaped in the corner. A cement-gray jumpsuit, block letters emblazoned across the front, hangs from the wall. Wooden chess pieces, carved by Burmese prisoners, sit nearby. But this... [read full story]                    

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