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from the Guardian; Myanmar freedom of expression getting worse 'day by day', report finds
Comment ; It must be very hard for some one like Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi to realize that all she has worked for for many years is not allowed to turn her country into a real progressive ly democratic system .... i wonder if she ever believed that it would all work out and that her country would have some thing of a British colonial political system .... We all want good people to win and live a normal life; ie afford to go shopping at the supermarket and have a job and a decent home and shelter . She looks so sensitive and it seems unbelievable that she could allow the Rohinga People to be the victims of this phase of history .... victims of strange dark meccanisms as are too the people of Yemen .... Syria .... where is the magic wand to make it all right ? I remember when i was a child , the radio was on all the time and i grew up listening to the war that was going on in Vietnam , day in and day out .... it was as if it would go on for ever .... i just want to say that it is wonderful that the war in Vietnam came to wrap itself up ... and just as that one isnt on the news anymore i pray and hope that the Rohinga People and the Yemenees and the Syrians will survive these unbelievably dark years.
Myanmar freedom of expression getting worse 'day by day', report finds
Aung San Suu Kyi criticised for failing to halt jailing of Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone
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Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has failed to act on repressive regime for journalists, Human Rights Watch said. Photograph: Hein Htet/EPA
Myanmar’s freedom of expression has deteriorated under its new government, a new Human Rights Watch report has said.
It cited the jailing of Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who were investigating the Rohingya crisis, saying the case “shows the military’s willingness to penalise reporters who seek information the military would rather keep hidden”.
The report, Dashed Hopes – The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar, was published on Friday and analyses threats against journalists and activists since the National League for Democracy (NLD) took power in 2016.
Zayar Hlaing, editor of the investigative magazine Mawkun and executive member of the Myanmar Journalist Network, said in the report: “Before the 2015 election, the NLD said it would protect press and promote independent media. After two years, press freedom is worse day by day.”
Linda Lakhdhir, Asia legal adviser at Human Rights Watch and author of the report, said: “Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy promised a new Myanmar, but the government still prosecutes peaceful speech and protests and has failed to revise old oppressive laws.”
The rights group said the new government increasingly used section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law to stifle critical voices through a catch-all definition of “defamation”.
Hunter Marston, a Washington-based independent consultant, agreed with the findings, saying freedom of press had “deteriorated markedly”. In addition to laws being used to suppress criticism, he said the country’s de-facto leader had failed to step up for freedom of expression.
“State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi has refrained from using her authority to reverse the wrongful charges and imprisonment of Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone,” he said. “This high-profile case has cast a pall over Myanmar’s journalist community, which continues to brave a repressive political environment to present rigorous news coverage, push back against military atrocities in ethnic minority states, and call attention to a lack of political reforms by the NLD.”
Independent researcher Kim Jolliffe said the intimidations extended much further, with the jailing of Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone “just the most visible tip of the iceberg”.
“Less senior journalists from local publications are regularly being detained without due process or being violently attacked while on the job,” he said. “Numerous journalists, including young women, have been beaten or killed while reporting on commercial ventures or state-linked economic projects in recent years.”
He attributed this to only few of them working for global media corporations and not having high-profile lawyers. In total, Jolliffe said the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners had identified 35 political prisoners who were behind bars, in addition to 56 who were awaiting trial in pre-trial detention and more than 200 outside prison.
NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt could not be reached for comment.
Comment: I once found a bag near a shopping Mall in Paris .... It looked like a girl owned it because it was full of makeup bits and pieces and there were a lot of cards in it , one of which belonged to a buisness school and this had her name on it. The student was from Madagascar and i was sighing to myself when i called the school and the receptionist wasnt helpful in finding the person i was looking for. I went to the consolate or Embassy one morning , spending money on a Taxi in order to give the bag to a safe person working there. The consolate reminded me of consolates or embassies representing very poor countries ... .... where is all the money and wealth going ? SAMBAVA, Madagascar — Bright moonlight reflected off broad banana leaves, but it was still hard to see the blue twine laced through the undergrowth, a tripwire meant to send the unwary tumbling to the ground. “This is the way the thieves come,” sai...
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