Word: beechenor
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defend him before a special tribunal, Dr. Seagrave had a powerful battery of legal talent, all serving without fee. His attorney was U Kyaw Myint, probably the best Burmese lawyer. Also at the defense table was able Briton Peter M. Beechenor, a Chinese barrister from Kyaw Myint's office, and an Indian lawyer named Venkataram...
...named Naw Seng had used his hospital compound, in the hill country near the Burma-China border, as a military headquarters during a brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...
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