What It's Like To Report From Myanmar
Working as a foreign correspondent is tough enough. It’s doubly hard when you’re covering civil unrest. It’s even harder when you’re covering civil unrest in Myanmar, one of the most repressive countries of the world.
Yotam Feldman, an overseas correspondent for Israeli paper Ha’aretz, wrote an amazing piece on what it’s like to report from Myanmar. Except… He never made it to Myanmar. Instead, like most Western journalists, he was deported to Thailand. From a town on the Myanmar border filled with Buddhist monks protesting the government, he was left to paste together coherent reports from the few very, very brave Burmese stringers willing to risk their lives for the sake of getting the truth out.
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