En route to Maine this morning I listened to a haunting piece on NPR regarding the conflict in Burma.
Commentator Hanna Ingber Win lived in Myanmar in 2003 and is familiar with the Junta’s tactics. Four years later she watches another military crackdown from her computer, wondering if she’d have the courage to defy the regimes and smuggle news to the outside world
Click here to listen.
The length Burmese citizens are going to spread awareness of the military atrocities in their country is inspiring. It is a touching display and a powerful statement about the impact of citizen media. The social implications of the Web 2.0 era is infinite - marked not only by the technology available, but by the truth and transparency cultivated by those who use it.
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