It was not until 2011 that the military regime, which had jailed an estimated 2,000 politicalprisoners, was succeeded by a quasi-civilian government determined to open the country.Many of those prisoners have since been released, though as of last month, 169 politicalprisoners remained incarcerated, with 446 activists awaiting trial, according to the AssistanceAssociation for Political Prisoners, a human rights group in Thailand.

缅甸军政府关押了大约2000名政治犯，直到2011年，这个政权才被决心打开国门的准平民政府所取代。其后很多政治犯都得到释放，但是根据泰国人权组织援助政治犯协会(Assistance Association for PoliticalPrisoners)统计，截止到上个月，仍然有169名政治犯被关押，446名活动分子在候审之中。

Mr. Par Par Lay was himself a pro-democracy activist and avid supporter of Daw Aung SanSuu Kyi, now the country’s opposition leader, and took part in the violent nationwidedemocratic 1988 uprising before dying in August 2013, at the age of 67. His cause of deathwas never verified, but Mr. Lu Maw blames a kidney infection caused by years of drinkingcontaminated water at two prison camps in northern Myanmar.

巴巴列本人就是一位支持民主的活动分子，也是缅甸反对党领袖昂山素季的狂热支持者，曾参与1988年全国范围内的民主起义。他于2013年8月去世，享年67岁。死因无法证实，但卢茂说，这要归结于巴巴列多年前被关押在缅甸北部两座监狱期间饮用受污染的水，从而导致肾脏感染。

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