Sunday, September 1, 2019

The Irrawaddy Magazine

The Irrawaddy Magazine


The Day a Popular Myanmar Newspaper Was Taken Over by the Govt

Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:19 PM PDT

On this day 55 years ago, The Mirror Daily, a frequent critic of Gen. Ne Win's government, was nationalized by the dictator, ushering in five decades of censorship.