Myanmar's brutality little understood

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Reporting is so tightly controlled that the true ugliness of the regime gets forgotten about, while the junta is not without its friends Walk around Yangon and you'd never guess you were living in one of the world's most brutal regimes. The military presence doesn't feel overbearing. In plain clothes, though, lurk military intelligence agents. They are everywhere. And then there are the informers on street corners and at meeting places. Myanmar is a country where no one can trust their neighbour.
Oppose the military junta and you will be informed on and tracked down. Evade them and family members will be arrested and tortured.

Rape is a weapon of control. This may be a country of 48 million people, but the army of 500,000 -- accounting for half of government spending -- is sovereign.

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