Club Online Zoom Event: On the Frontline in Myanmar – A Conversation with Frontier Myanmar CEO Sonny Swe
Date: 15 Apr 2021 08:00 PM — 09:00 PM | Venue:
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| ONLINE ZOOM EVENT On the Frontline in Myanmar – A Conversation with Frontier Myanmar CEO Sonny Swe |
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| Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, deposing the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and detaining those in her government and scores of others. It has claimed – without evidence – that an election won by Suu Kyi’s party in November was fraudulent. Now, a brutal crackdown grinds on across the country, and the journalists of Frontier Myanmar are on the frontlines – capturing the anti-coup protests and the deadly clashes with security forces. A selection of images from their photojournalists is currently on display at the FCC in an exhibition titled “Amid Myanmar’s Brutal Crackdown, a Bold Movement Emerges.” In this Zoom event, Frontier Myanmar co-founder and publisher Sonny Swe will talk about the events of the last three months and the importance – and danger – of documenting the coup and its aftermath. Moderated by FCC Correspondent Governor Shibani Mahtani. | ||||||
| Sonny Swe is a pioneer in Myanmar’s media industry with more than 20 years of experience. He is the publisher of weekly magazine Frontier Myanmar, which he co-founded in 2015 and was one one of the first privately-funded English language news publications to open in Myanmar since the government of Thein Sein abolished the country’s repressive censorship regime in 2012. In 2000, Swe co-founded The Myanmar Times, the first Myanmar-foreign joint venture in the country’s media industry. He was imprisoned for his work at the newspaper from 2004 to 2013 after the purge of junta-era Prime Minister Khin Nyunt. | ||||||
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