Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I totally agree that we need a bigger organization, within the UN or something, an international mechanism that can directly protect journalists across the world. At the same time, in the context of Myanmar, the biggest challenge for journalists is the legal threats. I think th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry, I didn't get the translation.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We get the information from the government. The government uses different social media platforms for its official ministries' or departments' Facebook pages or websites. The problem is that the official information we're getting from the government is itself misinformation and di

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  When we actually look at the 2007 revolution carried out by Buddhist monks for democracy and human rights, there were many political issues that they were making demands for. Buddhist monks and Buddhist organizations have been long-standing organizations that represent communitie

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct. Even the mainstream media, when it comes to the Rohingya crisis, have gone to the right wing. They suddenly became the supporters of the government. For such a long time they considered the Rohingya non-existent or not belonging to the country, so they refuse to

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That is a very difficult question for all of the journalists right now. Since 2016, the Myanmar government has shut down the whole region in Rakhine State, particularly where the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people have fled. When the killings and raping that we were hearing

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Earlier last year, in April 2018, there was a civil society group in a local innovation centre in Yangon that had been giving close attention to how social media platforms like Facebook had been fuelling government and Buddhist extremist organizations in the spread of hatred amon

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's why the government's crackdown on the journalists has been successful. We don't see much reported about the killing, the raping and the human rights abuses against civilians in the ethnic regions, as well as in the Rohingya minority region.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for having me on this panel. I sent a short a statement last night, but I want to talk a little bit more broadly about the current situation and also where we have come along the way. International organizations have recently focused more on Myanmar because of the big