Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi marks her 65th birthday today, under house arrest in Rangoon. Here, we republish an article she wrote in honour of her father Aung San, which first appeared in the January 1992 edition of Index on Censorship magazine.
Supported by Index on Censorship, campaigners from across the UK and abroad are to converge on London’s Trafalgar Square on 3 May in support of Zarganar, Burma’s most famous comedian turned prisoner of conscience.
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Journalist and artist, Maung Zeya, and his son were arrested in Burma on 17 April. Its believed they are being held for taking photos of the sites where last weeks deadly bombings occurred near Rangoon. Zeya’s son took photos of three locations where bombs would explode two days later. The Burmese authorities have blamed the attacks on opposition groups. At least nine people died in the bombings during the water festival celebrating the Lunar New Year and another 75 were wounded.
Reporters Without Borders has named Burma, China, North Korea and Vietnam as among the worst violators of freedom of expression on the internet. The Enemies of the Internet 2010 report claimed that governments in these countries are either preventing citizens from accessing the web or developing increasingly sophisticated filtering techniques.