Never Say Die

By NEIL LAWRENCE MAY — JUNE, 2009 - VOLUME 17 NO.3

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In the same year, she won recognition as a refugee in the UK, after enduring a process that she describes as “almost as horrible as when I had first been forced to flee my village.”

But the real turning point in her life would come early the following year, when, after several failed attempts on her father’s life, his enemies finally caught up with him. By this time, she had also become a target, forcing her to stay away from her father’s funeral.

It’s a bitter ending to a story that has more than its fair share of misery. Through it all, however, she seems incredibly undaunted. As the daughter who died and came back to life, Zoya Phan has proven herself to be the true heir to her father’s legacy—the dream of a free, federal Burma that lives on even after half a century of nightmarish military rule.

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