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Michaelmas Talk #3 - Democracy in Myanmar

Tue, 26 Nov

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Room N7, Pembroke College

Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a political activist and a youth advocate in Myanmar, a rare voice from a woman in a country with a record of arbitrarily arresting and jailing its more vocal political dissidents.

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Michaelmas Talk #3 - Democracy in Myanmar
Michaelmas Talk #3 - Democracy in Myanmar

Time & Location

26 Nov 2019, 7:30 pm

Room N7, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF, UK

About the event

Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a political activist and a youth advocate in Myanmar, a rare voice from a woman in a country with a record of arbitrarily arresting and jailing its more vocal political dissidents. Myanmar has long been under strict military rule until just four years ago, when the National League of Democracy (NLD) won the first elections that took place in decades and formed the country’s first civilian government. However, even with the promise of democracy, Myanmar is still struggling with long-running civil wars, various restrictions and censorships; furthermore, Aung San Suu Kyi’s government has limited political power and motive to make real changes.

Since 2015, 44 journalists and 142 activists have faced trial, and the military crackdown of the Muslim Rohingya have received renewed global criticism. Thinzar is striving for freedom of expression as well as human rights to become applicable to all citizens including ethnic…

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