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The darkest days are coming : Myanmar s journalists suffer at hands of junta

As a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the brooding skies near a terminal window at Yangon international airport. For a while, the threat of foreigners being seized at the airport by Myanmar’s military was real, but after watching international reporters exit the country safely in April, the Michigan native was more worried about turbulence. He had arrived in Myanmar two years.

Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar s military regime living in Australia

Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar’s military regime living in Australia Ben Doherty, Nino Bucci and Ben Butler © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Bryan Tun has messaged his father only once since February, when a brutal coup swept the military to power in Myanmar, resulting in more than 700 civilian deaths. “Hey Dad,” he wrote to his father, Pwint San, who accepted the post of minister of commerce in the Myanmar military’s illegitimate new government, “if you don’t quit, you’re going to lose me as your son forever.” “You are not killing anyone, but you are employed by killers. You took a position given to you by killers.”

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