Woman of the world

In 1996, a journalist met a political prisoner in Rangoon.

Woman of the world

He got hot and sweaty during their interview. When she noticed, she jumped up and turned on the fan.

He was a BBC correspondent, she was the leader of a peaceful opposition movement. She had just been released after seven years’ house imprisonment, but would go on to spend the best part of the coming decade under some form of arrest. The correspondent was Irish journalist Fergal Keane.

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