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The 15-year-old reporter deleted the data from her phone and packed up her guitar as she set out to meet a guerrilla fighter in Myanmar. The instrument was mostly a decoy, there to disguise her work as a journalist. She cleared the data from her phone to protect her sources in the event of an arrest.
The Southeast Asian nation has seen a relentless crackdown on free expression, with a small literary magazine emerging as one of the few remaining independent media outlets.
Independent Myanmar media organizations have joined together to protest against the presentation by an “agent” of the Myanmar military junta at the recent Dili Dialogue Forum held in Timor-Leste that painted a fake picture of the media and developments in crisis-hit Myanmar.
Several armed groups that are currently fighting the regime snubbed Min Aung Hlaing’s earlier invite to talks.
In the wake of the Myanmar military coup, Myanmar nationalists and propagandists began to fall foul of Facebook’s community standard controls, finding posts blocked, and even accounts closed.