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July 23rd, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 4 Comments

From Burma’s Working People’s Daily, 29 October 1976. Thanks to a reader.

Working People's Daily 29 Oct 76

Tags: Thailand

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 fall // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    They were charged by Decree 22? No way!
    Being catched by catch-22… now, that got style…

  • 2 เด็กชายคิมหันต์ // Jul 24, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    Does this imply that…
    * there was more freedom of speech in Burma in 1976 than now?
    * there was more freedom of speech in Burma in 1976 than in Thailand?

  • 3 1000km // Jul 27, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    It says a lot about Thailand that attitudes to press freedom haven’t changed at all in 33 years. It tells us very little about Myanmar.

  • 4 1000km // Jul 27, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    …plus c’est la meme chose.

    It says a lot about Thailand that attitudes to press freedom haven’t changed at all in 33 years.

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