I got another five-and-a-half years for owning a VCD of one of Zarganar’s performances that was a bit critical of the regime.
#Myanmar vcds password
I had several different accounts and I gave military intelligence a password to an account that I thought was “safe.” However they found a cartoon of General Than Shwe that someone had sent me and I got a 16-year sentence for that. I was forced to hand over my Gmail password – I was told I would be hung if I refused. So it wasn’t a big shock when I was interrogated. I knew I could end up in prison at any time so many people were being sent to jail. Yes I was, but that was also partly because I come from a political family – my parents and grandparents were NLD members and I was a NLD youth leader. Were you aware of the risk you were taking by promoting blogging in Myanmar then? However just before the Saffron Revolution I organised a seminar called “Why we blog” to try to introduce people to this type of technology – but after that I became well known to the military government. I used to send articles to my friends with blogs overseas. I knew of the dangers of blogging so I never posted political content on my own blog – not even during the Saffron Revolution in 2007. So when I came back to Myanmar I wanted to keep blogging – but at the time even using Gmail was illegal. I really enjoyed it because I could write whatever I wanted and in my own language.
#Myanmar vcds how to
I started working as the editor of an online magazine and my friends taught me how to blog. Myanmar was completely different back then – we had very little electricity and even less access to the internet, whereas in Singapore, my friends never needed to shut down their computer or to log off from Gmail. It was during the 18 months I spent in Singapore from 2006 that I learnt how powerful it can be when used effectively. He spoke to Mizzima Business Weekly’s Jessica Mudditt about his passion for information and communications technology and his efforts to create a more tolerant society. In April 2014 he launched the anti-hate speech movement panzagar (“flower speech”), which has campaigned on social media and in public using street theatre.