Posts Tagged with ‘Nay-Myo-Latt’

If you've been following Laura Fitton on Twitter (@Pistachio), you've probably seen a lot of links with news about the cyclone and resulting aftermath in Myanmar. And the junta running the Myanmar government doesn't want its citizens seeing the information behind those links. Actually, they don't want anyone to see them.
I've mainly been following the story on Irrawaddy, and the news is not good. The junta is delaying aid to people suffering, sometimes to make it look as if [...]

There was a little-noticed bit of news out of Myanmar this week; a blogger, Nay Myo Latt, was arrested after writing about what is happening within the country, including increased loss of freedom following last fall's protests and subsequent government crackdown
As a blogger, I see stories like this fairly regularly coming out of countries with much more oppressive government controls of what people can do and say online. In Myanmar, this arrest is symptomatic of a much larger issue. I [...]