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Mourners stand around the coffin of poet Khet Thi during his funeral on May 10 in Pearl town, Sagaing Region. (Facebook / AFP)
Mourners stand around the coffin of poet Khet Thi during his funeral on May 10 in Pearl town, Sagaing Region. (Facebook / AFP)

Poets square off against junta’s war on words

Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against the coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words.

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