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Week's Suspension Of 7 Days News Journal For Reporting Murders |
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Nam Davies
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Monday, 17 March 2008 00:00 |
New Delhi: Using its draconian laws the Burmese Censor Board under the Ministry
of Information suspended the publication of '7 Days News' journal for reporting the
multiple murders in Green Bank, Kamayut Township, Rangoon.
The Rangoon based '7 Days News' weekly journal reported the multiple murders in
its 13th March issue with the headline 'Four souls taking order to find culprits'. It
was made to suspend publication for a week, a source close to Journal told
Mizzima.
The March 19 issue of the journal has been banned and will not be distributed to
the market.
"They banned Wednesday's issue. This issue reported the funeral ceremony and
what the police said besides having news photographs of the coffins. As far as we
know, the censor board didn't allow both the news headline and the news photo,
and ordered the editors to remove these. But we heard that the journal reported
them as supplementary news," an editor of a weekly journal said on condition of
anonymity.
Similarly the editors of 'The Voice' weekly journal published every Saturday were
summoned to the censor board office and ordered to sign the pledge. The weekly
journal also reported the news of the killing of five persons with news photographs.
"The editors of 'The Voice' journal were summoned and interrogated about the
news photograph and ordered to sign on the bond. The news photograph of
security personnel and police forces deployed at the crime scene appeared with the
news report. They had to just sign on the pledge. That's all," the editor added.
"But we learnt that no action was taken against other weekly journals, like 'Weekly
Eleven' and Flowers 'News Journal'. They too reported the multiple murders as it
appeared in the state-run media," he added.
On March 3, four family members and a housemaid at a residence under tight
security, near to the home of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, were
shot dead in broad daylight.
Businessman Charlie (Saw Kyipha), aged 60, and his wife San San Myint, 58, along
with their two daughters, Mya Sanda, 36, and Hnin Pwint Aye, 27, and their
housemaid Alphaw, 15, were all shot in the head inside the residence at No.126
Seinlaekanthar Street, Kamaryut Township.
The culprit, or culprits, is still at large and a police source says cash totaling at least
$90,000 was missing from the victim's home.
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