The 15-year-old reporter deleted the data from her phone and packed up her guitar as she set out to meet a guerrilla fighter in Myanmar. The instrument was mostly a decoy, there to disguise her work as a journalist. She cleared the data from her phone to protect her sources in the event of an arrest.
The Southeast Asian nation has seen a relentless crackdown on free expression, with a small literary magazine emerging as one of the few remaining independent media outlets.
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Military re-opens universities but few students attend
But only a handful of students attended, according to witnesses and student union sources across the country.
The state-run newspaper
Global New Light of Myanmar said the education ministry re-opened 134 universities on 6 May, following COVID-19 health rules, and described students as ‘satisfied’ that universities had resumed so that they could grasp the opportunity for learning and jobs. Teachers arrived on campuses on 3 May to prepare for teaching, it said.
A mathematics lecturer at Mawlamyine University who withdrew from the civil disobedience movement (CDM) to protect her family told
University World News that some students attended class but she thought more students might come in the weeks ahead.