The three “princesses” - Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein, Nay Ye Ba Swe, and Mya Than Than Nu - are all daughters of former Burmese prime ministers, who were part of the revered generation that won freedom from British rule before it was snatched away again in a military coup in 1962.
They have announced their candidacy as secretaries-general of the newly formed Democratic party, and will stand in this year’s promised elections.
It is a hopeless fight, however, and they know it: three women, backed by a hastily created, barely funded party against the might of a military junta which has ruled Burma with an iron fist for 48 years. But they spend their days, and their shoestring budget, knocking on village doors, trying to convince people too frightened speak to politicians of the importance not just of voting for them, but of voting at all.
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