Burma's busy censors at work

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This is a copy of Flower News, a Rangoon-based newspaper that had been marked up by Burmese government censors before publication.
Burma is the world's second most censored country, according to a 2006 Committee to Protect Journalists report.
As CPJ's Joel Simon says, "You don't have to read Burmese to understand what's going on here. The red marks speak for themselves."
Aung-Thwin is the director of the Burma project at the Open Society Institute and one of the world's leading experts on the country.

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