Video: In Burma, ex-political prisoners struggle to return to normal life

Subscribe to France 24 now : FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 During a half-century of dictatorship, nearly 10,000 Burmese citizens were imprisoned for their political views. Almost all of these political prisoners suffered physical and psychological torture. Some were locked up for almost 30 years. The inhumane living conditions they were subjected to have made their return to normal life a challenge. Our reporter went to meet them. In November 2015, Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD), the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a parliamentary majority in the country’s first free elections since 1990. It was a historic victory which mirrored that of the thousands of dissidents opposed to the junta. Since a change of regime in 2011, these political prisoners have begun to be released en masse. After initially being isolated and excluded from society, with no one to help them, things are beginning to c