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On a typical day, the Mai Rupa, native Ghan state, walks in Eastern Myanmar, documenting the effects of war.
A video journalist with online news speech Shwe Phee MyayHe collects and collects reports related to combat updates until the situation of local civilians living in the battlefield, collecting cities and villages, images.
His work is full of risks. Roads are full of mines and have time to bomb the air and the artillery shell.
“I witnessed those who were injured in countless people and the dead in front of civilians,” Mai Rupa said.
“This heartwarming experiments affected me,” he said, “Sometimes it is sometimes serious emotional distress,” he said.
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Shwe Phee Like colleagues in Myay – a name – Mai Rupa, which belongs to the rich tea cultivation of the province, prefers to pass with the latest independent media.
Most journalists fled to myanmar as a result of the seizure and expanding civil war. Some continue to cover the surrounding visits from the work bases in the neighboring Thailand and India.
However, employees in Shwe Phee Myay – a burma language, Shan State’s roots in the Ethnic Ta’ang community, reporting a region of several ethnic armed group, which covers a region of a region, which is sometimes fighting against a region.
Struggling to inform the public
February 2021, after the start of a military coup of Myanmar, Feee Phee Myay’s journalists faced new risks.
In March of the year, two correspondents were sentenced to two correspondents in March, covering democracy projections. Soldiers and police, two months later, when Lashio raided the capital of Shan province, the whole team went to hide.
In September, the organization, the organization’s video correspondent, Phuong, was arrested for Phuong for the decision and dissemination of “fake news”. He sentenced to about two years in prison. The remaining 10 people were scattered after the arrest of Myanmar Army’s media in the media.
He spreads through the province of northern Shan in the east of the country, the newscard struggled to continue their work first. They chose to escape from the city where they could face the military. It was a struggle to report every day.
“We couldn’t travel to the main roads, only back roads”, “SHWE Phee Myay reminded the editor of myay,” HLAR NYIEM.
“Sometimes we lost four or five business days in a week,” he said.
Despite the dangers, Shwe Phee Myay’s journalists continued with hidden work to be informed of the people.
When 7.7 is in the power of the earthquake On March 28, the Central Myanmar hit the more death 3,800 peopleFee Phee Myay’s journalists are between several people after the country.
The servicemen took the most international media outlets, referring to the difficulties of the earthquake, traveling and residential areas, and several local correspondents who are secretly working in the country have taken great risks to get information.
“These journalists continue to discover the truth and hear the voices of people,” he said, “he said.
Myanmar’s journalists face a new threat on the civil war and threats created by the military regime of Myanmary.
In January, the US President Donald Trump and billionaire’s venture government management began in the department of Elon escort unloading United States International Development Agency (USAID).
USAID has allocated more than $ 268 million to support independent media and from Myanmar from Myanmar to Myanmar in more than 30 countries in the world Myanmar in Myanmar, Myanmar to Myanmar, Myanmar to Myanmar, Myanmar to Myanmar.
Guardian in February declare The establishment of “existential crisis” for exiled journalists operating from the city of Mae Sot, Mae Sot, the country on the country of Myanmar on the country of Thailand.
The situation worsened in the middle of March, in the White House announced For the global media (USAGM), plans to reduce bare minimum transactions. USAGM controls – among others – the voice of the free Asia, which is the guarantor of the voice of America, but also the guarantor of the news about Myanmar.
Last week, RFA announced that he stood in order to inform 90 percent of his employees, Tibet, Burmese, Uyghur and Lao. VOA faced a similar situation.
Burma News International, 16 local, independent media outlayer Tin Tin NYO, a network of independent media organizations in Myanmar and outside, the loss of Burmese language presented by VOA and RFA has created a “surprising information vacuumi”.
The independent media sector of Myanmar also has a lot of international assistance, which is already in DWindling, Talay Tin Nyo said.
According to him, as a result of USAID financing brought by Trump and brought by Musk’s Doge, many local myanmar news agencies “struggle to prepare reliable information,” the majority.
Some have dropped employees, reduced programming or suspended transactions.
“Following independent media reduction (false) prestige, early warnings and reverse propaganda, as a result, democracy is a pro-minute.”
“When independent media cannot warn, politicians in the world will be unaware of the real situation in Myanmar,” he said.
‘The permanent fear of death or even death’
At present, 35 journalists are imprisoned in Myanmar, and the third most evil journalist in the world after China and Israel was arrested for the committee to protect journalists.
Country It was in order Borderless’ World Press Freedom Index about the reporters about 180 countries from 180 countries.
“Journalists in the Earth should always work under the fear of prison or death,” Tin Tin Nyo said.
“Military Khunta approaches media and journalists as a criminal, especially allows you to obtain information.”
Despite the dangers, Shwe Phee Myay continues to broadcast news about events within Myanmar.
On Facebook, a million followers – the world’s most news from the Most people in Myanmar – Shwe Phee Myay’s coverage has been critical in 2021 and expanding Civil War.
Founded in Lashio in 2019, in 2011, in 2011, it was one of the independent media outlets that appeared on the basis of an independent opening, which started in 2011, which started in 2011, the independent military authorities in 2011 arise from an international half-century.
Pre-publishing censorship ended in 2012 among more widespread policy reforms, as servicemen agreed to allow greater political freedom. Like a democratic voice, journalists living and working in exile for the media as the news of the media and the mizima began to return home.
However, the country’s NASENT freedoms came under the tension Anung San Suu Kyi’s National League came to power in 2016 during the duration of the National League for the Government of the Democracy, as a result of the political reforms of the serviceman.
Aung San Sau Kyi’s government arrested journalists and reached a cruel campaign of ethnic cleansing of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya society and now in the politically sensitive campaign in the international genocide.
However, the situation of independent journalists has dramatically deteriorated after 2021 coups. Military violence crack The general restricted the Internet against peaceful protests against power and canceled the media license, and dozens of journalists were arrested. This violence triggered Armed rebellion in Myanmar.
‘If we stop, who will continue to solve these issues?’
Shwe Phee Myay was deteriorated after the coup, as if the situation worsened, and Thailanda was transferred to Thailand, but the use of the news site decided to stay in the country.
“Our will was staying in our countries,” said Mai Naw Dang, which serves as an editor of Burmese-English.
“Collect the news and collect images, you had to be here.”
Their work was later received in October 2023, when the association of ethnic armed organizations started a new intensity Surprise attack About military foreigners in the province of Shan near the border with China.
An offensive major sketchiness In the confrontation of myanmar; As a result, the military, air strikes, air strikes, the military withdrawal with weapons and fire. More than 500,000 people were expelled due to the war in two months.
Several foreign journalists, who may include in the province of North Shan, was placed without an unprecedent to cover the crisis of Myay.
Then in January of this year, the Fee Myay also not already arrived in November, and it was not coming to the reduction of the field report and the production of internal news and reduced domestic news.
“We take a risk to inform how people affect the war, but our efforts were not recognized,” he said.
“Although there is a strong human resource base on the ground, we face serious problems in ensuring the financing to continue our work.”
During staff meetings, Mai Rukaw Shwe has increased the opportunity to close Myay with colleagues.
Their answer was to continue despite the drying of money.
“We always ask ourselves: If we stand, who will continue to apply for these issues?” Said.
“This question is moving forward.”
