April 1. 2004

Current political prisoners’ booklets secretly written in prison are published outside Burma. As the first step, a collection of three booklets is published under the title of “Dauk Phyote Tan, The Evil Sound of the Executioner Opening the Trapdoor: Writings in Prison”. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) will distribute it today.

Poems, features, commentaries, cartoons, letters and satires with original illustrations are included in the book. Subjects such as history, student movements, democracy and human rights are discussed in the book.

The book is published to honor
- Phone Maw, a student activist who died in the 1988 students’ movement
- Fourteenth anniversary of 1988 democracy movement
- Human Rights Day of Burma (March 13, 2004).

The original foreword says that the booklets were written under the conditions of “difficulties, threats and tricks.”

The 143-page book can be downloaded at www.aappb.net and the printed version of the book is also available by contacting the following addresses.