BurmeseRightsActivists

Burma Journal: Rights Activists, Reporting From the Underground

Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, is a bustling town ringed by green hills and overrun with kitschy coffee shops, screaming mopeds and, apparently, a lot of free wi-fi. I once listened to Blues Traveler and had a nose ring, so I can't rag on the backpacking set that flocks here for cheap noodles, excellent foot massages and the slightly-off-the-beaten-pathness of it all, but what brought me to Chiang Mai was a visit to the Burmese human rights network that has made the city its ground zero, oftentimes in secret. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) is an underground television and radio network ...

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