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Bertil Lintner is a Swedishjournalist based in Thailand, a REVIEW senior writer and the author of several works on Asia, including Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld of Asia. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...
Lintner is one of a many blacklisted journalists who have not been allowed to enter Burma since 1989. Lintner has written numerous articles and books on Burma, and is considered to be one of the most knowledgeable foreign journalists on Burmese affairs. The junta says his reports on Burma are groundless and based on wishful thinking. Ironically, blacklisted journatists tend to garner better respect as primary sources, and due to this, Lintner was the first foreign journalist to learn about Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in 1995. Nowadays Lintner's main foci have shifted to Laos and North Korea. A blacklist is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... State Peace and Development Council is the official name of the government of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). ... Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese: ; MLCTS: ; IPA: ); born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. ... In justice and law, house arrest is the situation where a person is confined (by the authorities) to his or her residence. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Ye Htoon, also known as Roland Chan Htun, (born 1937) is a prominent Burmese lawyer, sometime-jailed political dissident, and a successful entrepreneur, and one of the notables of the now-extinct Scouting movement in Burma. ...
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