Free Burma

Site:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/freeburma.html

Category:
International Government

Review (in 1996):

"The country of Burma has been under martial law since 1962", announces this site, and since the late 1980s, the country has been known as Myanmar. This politically-charged page has a wealth of information on the country (whatever you want to call it): news stories, general national info, and a wonderful photo album of popular hero Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 for resisting the military junta.

An absolutely charming "Sights & Sounds" folder captures fleeting Burmese scenes, like the eggplant salesman who's seen it all, but escaped to the border. "He doesn't talk anymore. He just sells eggplants."

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.