The history of censorship in Burma has resulted in a citizenship that views poverty and violence at the hands of the state authority as commonplace.
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Students have used strikes and protests to put pressure on Myanmar’s government to engage in dialogue with its people, and create meaningful political change.
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In Ma Thida’s first column for Sampsonia Way, she writes about the lack of a collective dream in her native Myanmar.
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This year, Sampsonia Way introduced The Freedom Chats, a new series that features interviews with journalists and other international media personalities who face censorship and repression in their home countries. Join us in reviewing the most viewed Freedom Chats from 2014.
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In this edition of the Freedom Chat Transcripts, Burmese activist and surgeon Ma Thida talks more about her imprisonment and the changes she has seen in Burma’s methods of censorship.
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In this installment of the Freedom Chat, Dr. Ma Thida, a Burmese surgeon, writer, and human rights activist discusses the effect of recent government policies on free speech.
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This week: Burmese writer Ma Thida discusses censorship, new French-backed Syrian radio promises independent voice, and Vietnamese bloggers harassed.
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