The Zoom Room

Burma

Since 1989, when General Ne Win took control of Burma, the country has been largely cut off from the outside world. Military control is absolute, political opponents have been imprisoned (including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi) and reports of human rights abuses are common.

The military has banned mobile phones and the internet, and little information about what life is like inside Burma (called Myanmar by the military) is allowed out.

FOOTNOTES Journal-istas Guillaume Pernette and
Olivier Antibi went to Burma to see for themselves

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