Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sun journalists harassed in Burma

This mornings Sun carries a large report of its journalists being seized by the authorities in Burma.

Under the headline
Burma is starving but cops are busy nicking Sun men,Nick Parker reports

MILITARY leaders finally snapped into action in cyclone-ravaged Burma yesterday – to STOP vital aid being brought in and to scare off foreign journalists.
I entered the disaster zone, along with Sun photographer Peter Jordan, and found troops, secret police and immigration officials at work in the corpse-strewn Irrawaddy Delta.
But we saw NONE distributing supplies or helping the million-strong throng of starving and thirsty survivors facing an agonising death. Instead, they manned scores of checkpoints to shut off the entire region to foreigners, including British aid workers and ourselves

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