Reading Burma
September 23, 2008
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September Uprising 2007 Commemoration Pin. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Siri Hustvedt, author. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar. © Beowulf Sheehan -
George Packer, author/journalist. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Kiran Desai, author. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Orhan Pamuk, author. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Venerable U Gawsita, a leader of the September Uprising 2007. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Venerable U Pyinnya Zota, interviewed by a reporter. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Salman Rushdie. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Maureen Aung-Thwin, Director of the Burma Project. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Joseph Lelyveld, author/journalist. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Documentary footage of September Uprising 2007. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Translator, Venerable U Gawsita, George Packer. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Venerable U Gawsita. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Kiran Desai and Orhan Pamuk. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Monks of Burma. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Siri Hustvedt. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Orhan Pamuk. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Salman Rushdie. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Monks of Burma, delivering the metta sutra. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Monks of Burma, delivering the metta sutra. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Venerable U Pannya Thiri, a leader of the September Uprising 2007. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Guests at the reception. © Beowulf Sheehan -
George Packer, Maureen Aung-Thwin, and Joseph Lelyveld. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Larry Siems, International Programs Director of PEN, with guests at the reception. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Orhan Pamuk, with guest at the reception. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Kiran Desai, with guest at the reception. © Beowulf Sheehan -
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, with guests at reception. © Beowulf Sheehan
This event marked the first anniversary of the monks’ uprising, in which thousands of Buddhist monks protested against Burma’s military dictatorship, and the 20th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy protests by millions of ordinary civilians.
PEN, the Open Society Burma Project, and the New York Review of Books joined together to honor Burmese writers whose work has been suppressed by the military regime and to support the victims of the recent cyclone. The event also paid tribute to the thousands of monks who are missing or have lost their lives last year, and to those who have continued to speak out against injustice for the past twenty years.
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