CATEGORY: Burma

Speech control

Speech control

The Burmese authorities are employing new tactics in their control of information, reports Nem Davies In the wake of the saffron revolution and continuing with its policy of 'counter media with media', the junta is now intensifying its...

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Hidden message

The Burmese authorities have arrested the poet Saw Wai, after realising that one of his love poems contained a hidden message criticising Burma's military leader. The poem was published in a popular magazine in Rangoon. The first words of each line...

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Burma: the environmental pillage

The Burmese junta, responsible for the brutal crackdown on recent protests against the authorities’ decision to hike fuel prices at a time of worsening economic conditions, is bankrolling its regime by exploiting the country’s vast...

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