Myanmar Returns to the ‘Bad Old Days’
Posted: 2021, May 07, Fri, 1:44 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/worl ... -coup.htmlEvery night at 8, the stern-faced newscaster on Myanmar military TV announces the day’s hunted. The mug shots of those charged with political crimes appear onscreen. Among them are doctors, students, beauty queens, actors, reporters, even a pair of makeup bloggers.
Military censors sever the internet across most of Myanmar, matching the darkness outside with an information blackout. Soldiers sweep through the cities, arresting, abducting and assaulting with slingshots and rifles.