This shit just gets weirder and weirder. I wonder if this directive came from the Thai side or the Myanmar side?
BANGKOK — Journalists attempting to cover this week’s three-day visit to Thailand by Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi will find themselves unusually constrained.
It is a high profile visit that comes as Myanmar, also known as Burma, transitions from military rule to democracy, while the opposite has occurred in neighboring Thailand.
Between 1.4 million and four million citizens of Myanmar work in Thailand, perhaps the majority of them illegally.
Reporters are being told they will have no opportunity to question Aung San Suu Kyi, even during a so-called joint news conference in Bangkok with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power in a bloodless coup two years ago.
Thailand’s Foreign Ministry, in an agenda sent to correspondents, also advised photographers, videographers and reporters covering the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s visit to be formally attired “at all times,” including during her scheduled visit Saturday to a border refugee camp reachable via unpaved roads.
Most journalists, even if they show up in a tuxedo or ball gown, will not be permitted to see the Myanmar leader at the Tham Hin refugee camp as coverage has been additionally limited to “official media and pool media only.”
More here:
http://m.voanews.com/a/aung-san-suu-kyi ... 85223.html
Media barred from asking questions during ASSK visit to Thailand
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It gets worse and worse. This is a taste of what you might expect, only more so, should You Know Who rises to the Great Palace in the Sky.
"We want our country to develop step by step. But that is such a long way off . . . as far away as the stars."
Jobless father in documentary Cambodia: Country of Scars.
Jobless father in documentary Cambodia: Country of Scars.
After decades of the international community supporting ASSK's push for democracy in Myanmar, I'm very confident she will use her time in Thailand to call for the restoration of democracy there.
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