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venerdì, febbraio 22, 2008
Birmania. Visto, non si stampi. Da una parte l'annuncio di elezioni-beffa ad uso e consumo delle anime belle che popolano i salotti della diplomazia internazionale, dall'altra un giro di vite sempre più abietto nei confronti di poeti, bloggers, giornalisti. Storie di tutti i giorni dal paese delle bianche pagode e delle parole sussurrate sottovoce:
Burma’s military government continues to crack down on the country’s struggling independent media, most recently by the arrest last week of Rangoon-based journalists Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung—respectively the editor and office manager of the Myanmar Nation weekly news journal. Furthermore, the editor, Thet Zin, has been an anti-government activist and critic. He was arrested and tortured in 1988 for taking part in the student pro-democracy protests at Rangoon University, and he was occasionally detained and interrogated by officials throughout the 1990s. Four days after the arrests, the authorities raided the publication again. Later, the censorship board, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, instructed the publisher to stop publishing the weekly journal. Such actions by the junta against the Burmese media have never ceased. Asia Tribune approfondisce i meccanismi di controllo dell'informazione messi in atto dalla giunta militare: The Burmese military junta has enforced stringent censorship rules and regulations the world has ever known on the media. Every piece of text has to be scrutinized by military's PSRD before being published. Burma achieved certain notoriety as predator of the press. No information is allowed to flow or be published/ broadcast without the junta's prior approval. The situation changed in 1962, when the military seized power. All newspapers were nationalized by the junta led by Gen. Ne Win. It established a Press Scrutiny Board (PSB) to enforce strict censorship on all forms of printed matter including advertisements and obituaries. Since then, military junta's censorship and self-censorship are commonplace in Burma and these have severely restricted political rights and civil liberties. Moreover, the junta also dominates the media industries through alternate publication companies owned by generals and their cronies. Photos, cassette tapes, movies and video footage also need the censor's stamp before reaching the people. At the same time, the military concentrates to stop the flow of uncensored radio news in Burmese version available from international broadcasting stations. The radio, television and other media outlets are monopolized for propaganda warfare by the military regime and opposition views are never allowed. The regime even does not allow the religious discourse. The media is special tool for the military regime and no space for the opposition party. The political debates are always inhibited even at the National Convention. That's why the National Convention lost its credibility and regarded as a sham. |
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A Luisa.   
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