INTERVIEW
“A Healthy Media is Key to Our Country's Development”
By THE IRRAWADDY
Friday, September 16, 2011
(Page 3 of 3)
Even if we cannot be based there, we still want to be allowed to go inside to collect news and conduct interviews with people, including the president, government officials and members of the opposition. We want to be permitted to report about our country more deeply than we can at present. We will go back for such an opportunity.
Aung Zaw is founder and editor of The Irrawaddy and recipient of the 2010 Prince Claus Award for his active role in the fight for freedom of information and democracy.
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COMMENTS (9)
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Tom Tun,
The Sangha's boycott in 2007 was a powerful non-violent challenge to military authority performed on behalf of the civilian population.
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Tom Tun Wrote: |
21/09/2011 |
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U Nu,
If soldiers should stay in their barracks, religious personals should stay where they belong. Pursuit of happiness is individual choice, it can't be mixed up with society affairs. I watched one of the Shawn Connery movie before and he said that, "All victims are equal and none is more equal than the other". I definitely see that what he means. We are all victims of Burmese regime. No one is suffer more than other. We have to help each other. No one is at the bottom of the pile of the bone, but every one is in the pile of the bone. Search for the common cause or you will lose it. |
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| Where is media education inside our country? Healthy educations including healthy and ethical journalism is badly needed first to open minds to develop our country. |
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“The People’s Sangha”
If a mountain of our people’s bones
Can free Burma from the grip of dictatorship
The bones of our abbots and monks will be lying at the bottom of the pile
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Terry Evans Wrote: |
20/09/2011 |
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| The key to change in Burma is to get the generals out of politics and the soldiers back in their barracks. |
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Tom Tun Wrote: |
19/09/2011 |
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Ko Aung Zaw,
I like to share my own opinion and what changes that will make me to go home and help Burma. First and foremost, when society is more important than the government and the power of the government, I think it will be time for the exiles to go back home. For now, I don't see real changes, for example Kyaw Hsan quotes of Elephant King Saddan and journalism. There are too many monastery graduate monks killer are still in power and there is no particular law to protect freedom of speech. It is more benefit to the Burmese society by working outside of Burma. Hopefully changes will come soon. |
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Myint Aung Wrote: |
19/09/2011 |
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| Aung Zaw, you're my hero. You should go back to Burma right now, you can teach everyone how to rob donors and buy a big house and win awards for being a big phoney. |
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U K Win Wrote: |
19/09/2011 |
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| "Let me write the laws of the land and I do not care who makes its laws." Thomas Jefferson. |
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Well done Aung Zaw and all the people who write with regular courage, ethics, support and such deep intelligence and determination.
Your fellow media in democratic neighbouring need to take note of your courage, look carefully at themselves, and assist further- NOW. This support is horribly long overdue.
The fact that a whole nation can be held to ransom like this for so long (and suffer so much at the hands of people with no mandate) is archaic beyond belief. Well done for being voices of truth and dissent. Well done for continuing your essential work regardless of the insanity you face, and to all those in the field, inside and out.
Well done. Well done.
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