This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’, 1898.
Last month, Myanmar’s broken justice system threw two Reuters journalists in jail for the crime of ‘obtaining secret information that might be useful to an enemy’. To say that the convictions were unsafe would be a ludicrous understatement.
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