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Burma's most prominent political dissident, U Win Tin says he will continue to strive for freedom for the people of his nation.
![U Win Tin, the country's longest serving political prisoner speaks to reporters outside a friend's house on his release from prison in September 2008. [AFP]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uFO49aYHXTeaPo7HCVg9vXE1ngdAewq-7Yd3CM2AwKG8PsVlmRpaCFnhfE-NBurLBdCEdZ8qPv42tDdm5ImITwiKDdMhKWQkPCTPj6jD5zlkjzbhTANYaSTdc=s0-d "U Win Tin, the country's longest serving political prisoner speaks to reporters outside a friend's house on his release from prison in September 2008. [AFP]")
PHOTO: U Win Tin, the country's longest serving political prisoner speaks to reporters outside a friend's house on his release from prison in September 2008. [AFP]
U Win Tin was jailed in 1989 for 20 years for his writing.
Along with Aung San Suu Kyi, he is one of three surviving founding members of the National League for Democracy.
U Win Tin was released from jail in September 2008.
He has told Radio Australia's Connect Asia his battle for freedom including the jail sentence he has served hopefully has helped pave the way for developing democracy in Burma.
"We hope that by striving for democracy, we think there is no more arrests, or no more sending to jail for the people," he said.
He said he won't be changing his course in life.
" For the last 20 years we have been striving for democracy and human rights and for peace in Burma."
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201203/3451430.htm
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