In crisis, Myanmar (Burma) dissident sees hope

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YANGON, Myanmar — Every breath he takes is a struggle.

Locked in a cell, held without charge because he condemned one of the military government's many brutal assaults on dissent, Ludu Sein Win suffered a stroke 28 years ago. It withered his body, but his defiant voice is still strong.

Still producing opinion pieces scrawled in shaky longhand, the journalist and author nimbly dodges censors by writing under 15 pseudonyms.

On a recent afternoon, he sat on the edge of his bed, steadying himself with frail hands pressed flat against a thin mattress.

Every few words, he paused and pursed his lips. With all the fight left in him, Sein Win, 69, forced his lungs to wheeze in oxygen pumped through the clear plastic tube that tethers him to a machine softly bubbling at his bedside.

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