A DISSIDENT writer from Myanmar, as Burma is now known, will give a talk about human rights abuses there in Welwyn Garden City on Tuesday, April 15.
Mr Pascal Khoo Thwe, who fled the country in 1988, has been invited to address a meeting at the Focolare Centre in Parkway by the local Amnesty International group.
His autobiography has been serialised on BBC Radio Four.
Welwyn Hatfield's Amnesty group has adopted as its own prisoner of conscience a 75-year-old Burmese retired academic, Dr Salai Tun Than, who has been sentenced to seven years in prison for organising a petition for a general election.
The Burmese military government ignored the result of the last election in 1990 which went against it, and has since been blasted by critics as brutally repressive.
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