As one of the founders of a so-called influential business chamber my hope was that it could be a forum for constructive ideas, and so it was during the dark days of martial law when my chamber defied rigorous censorship by the regime by putting up an underground press that chronicled the abuses of the regime.

There came a point when an editor was hauled to the Eastern police district for interrogation. Had it not been for the foreign correspondents he would have been locked up for the duration of martial law.

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