MORE REPORTS OF CENSORSHIP CRACKDOWNS IN MYANMAR
January 17th 2008 10:58
The Myanmar regime’s censorship board has warned the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party, about its recent publication of a bulletin that discussed the pro-democracy uprising.
An NLD spokesman Han Tha Myint told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that an official from the junta’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Board asked to discuss the publication on Monday.
Later, Nyan Win, another NLD spokesperson, went to a censorship office and met with Major Tint Swe, the director of the censorship board.
He said the authorities told him that the publication of the bulletin on January 4 was against the publication act.
On January 4, the 60th anniversary of Burma’s Independence Day, youth members of the NLD published and distributed a news bulletin called Ah-yoan-thit or Dawn.
The publication included news about the September crackdown on protestors, the closure of Maggin monastery, detained NLD members and the distribution of videos critical of the military government and others.
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