Mr David Arnott, who founded the Online Burma Library in 2001 and spent two decades turning it into the largest online collection of material about the country, died in Mae Sot, Thailand, on December 7, aged 77. (Supplied)
Mr David Arnott, who founded the Online Burma Library in 2001 and spent two decades turning it into the largest online collection of material about the country, died in Mae Sot, Thailand, on December 7, aged 77. (Supplied)

‘A lifetime of selfless endeavour’: David Arnott, The Online Burma/Myanmar Library founder

David Arnott, who died earlier this month in Thailand, was at the vanguard of online activism targeting Myanmar’s regime and spent the last two decades of his life building the largest online collection of material about the country.

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