El Mundo reporter David Jiminez was one of the few Western reporters in Rangoon when the Burmese army started shooting demonstrators last week. His account of the last few days of the widespread protests is online at the Toronto Star. From the report:
A new crackdown was underway as soon as the soldiers had retaken control of the streets. Twenty thousand soldiers descended into Rangoon with orders to make sure there would be no more uprisings. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
Gun-toting soldiers were posted on almost every street corner, Internet links were cut and tourist visas were denied. They came looking for the few journalists reporting the story.
It’s a sobering, even sickening, report that deserves to be widely read.
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SOURCE: THE CANADIAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | TAGS: BURMA, JOURNALISM, REPORTING
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