"anuary the 1st is a special day for most people. It is a good time to think of the ones you love, and a good opportunity to let them know your love for them. In fact, it has become a day to extend good wishes to everyone you know. While it is true in every family, there is one very special family for which this is particularly true in Myanmar: the Egress family. Every year, on that day, we remember Dr Nay Win Maung, who passed away six years ago in the first hours of 2012. Indeed, to those of us who worked for Myanmar Egress, a civil society organization that had been a training center and a think tank since 2006, his memory seems like it can never fade away. His last year, of 2011, had been a crazy year for Myanmar Egress, as it had been for Myanmar in general. In fact, as this post argues, the two were intimately related, and what happened at Egress closely mirrored what happened in the country at large, or vice-versa..."