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One of the founders of the Democratic Voice of Burma. He participated in the 1988 student uprisings and now lives in Norway.
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"Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country"
As Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi goes on trial, we look at an award-winning documentary film about media activism in Burma and the extraordinary risks citizen journalists take to get information out of the country. The film follows a collective of undercover video journalists in Burma called the Democratic Voice of Burma, who smuggle out footage from Burma to Norway, from where...May 18, 2009 | Story
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