PB News Issue No. 4, Autumn 2001 

On May 6 2001, Joanna Lumley broadcast an appeal on Radio 4 on behalf of Prospect Burma. This is what she said:

"Burma is a Buddhist and deeply spiritual land in southeast Asia that once had proud educational traditions. This came to a brutal end in the summer of 1988 when the military government crushed the protests of students whose only crime was to ask for democracy. Hundreds of students were killed. Thousands more were forced to flee their homes and country.