Anyone planning to join the queue to get a visa to Burma in the coming weeks will want to read this article from over at The Irrawaddy. In the run up to the referendum the reported clampdown on granting visas (particularly to anyone who looks like a journalist) isn’t all that surprising. This is especially so after Adrees Latif won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the stricken Japanese journalist, Kenji Nagai. As far as I am aware both men were in the country on tourist visas.
Good luck to those joining the queue.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Teth // May 1, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I’d really like to see the face of Burma’s first post-constitutional (civilian?) government.
2 Burma journalists given the boot, and the like // May 27, 2008 at 1:00 am
[...] others also seem to be getting visas for Burma, even after the long-term (pre-cyclone) clampdown discussed here. Where there is a will there is often (it seems) a way…unless you are Bertil [...]
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