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'Sean Turnell is an Australian economist who was detained by Myanmar’s military regime from February 2021 until November 2022. An Unlikely Prisoner, his account of the ordeal, has quite a personal tone as he relates his struggle with unjust imprisonment by a regime whose hallmark was ‘a mix of the needlessly brutal, the petty, and the incompetent’. This personal story is also mixed with politics, for Turnell has an insider’s view of Myanmar’s ongoing struggle for freedom, one of the great dramas of modern Asian history.' (Introduction)
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The Box : A Personal Account of Imprisonment
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- An Unlikely Prisoner : How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar's Most Notorious Jail 2023 single work autobiography
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