Adam Bemma

  • Myanmar’s Cinema Centenary and Film Censorship

    The 2018 documentary film Child of the Revolution opens with a shot of the rolling green mountains in Myanmar’s eastern Kayin State. A Karen woman begins her story—that of a family torn apart by decades of conflict but committed to improving access to education in the community. “I wanted to make a film about Karen…

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  • Southeast Asia Dispatches: Freedom of Expression in Myanmar

    After winning the general elections in 2015, the National League for Democracy (NLD) became the first democratically elected, civilian-led government in Myanmar since 1962, which kindled hope that the country would see a significant shift in freedom of expression. Almost five years on, substantive changes have yet to happen. On this week’s episode of Southeast…

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  • Myanmar’s Anti-War Generation

    YANGON – “Without ending war we can’t move forward as a nation,” said 23-year-old Myanmar peace activist Esther Naw. Naw is under constant surveillance by Yangon’s Special Branch of the police, run by Myanmar’s Ministry of Home Affairs – one of the three ministries under Tatmadaw, or military control. “They came to my church three…

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  • Myanmar’s Youthful Change – CBC The World this Weekend

    YANGON, Myanmar – There has been a transition taking place in this Southeast Asian country since the end of 50 years of military dictatorship in 2012. The first fully democratic elections in 2015 brought Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to power. But many say Suu Kyi’s government isn’t moving fast enough on human…

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  • A Plan to Resolve one of Asia’s Longest Refugee Situations

    MAE SOT, Thailand – The UN refugee agency field office in Mae Sot has been working for the last 15 years in nine refugee camps along Thailand’s western border. These camps are home to 102,777 refugees from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Iain Hall is senior field coordinator at UNHCR in Mae Sot. He’s been doing…

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  • Myanmar’s Technology Leapfrog Into Mobile Money – PRX

    YANGON, Myanmar – Burma’s democratic transition is leading to a tech transformation. Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told youth to stop wasting time on mobile phones and online. Almost half of Myanmar’s population is under 24 years of age. Everyone is looking for the new government to catch up with the rest of Southeast Asia…

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