Some Logan councillors would like this to be the case here, but as yet they have to put up with criticism and resort to posting under an anonymous nick to browbeat and attempt to belittle anyone who doesn't agree with them and support them implicitly.
20 years' jail for Burmese blogger
A POPULAR Burmese blogger arrested after anti-junta protests last year has been jailed for 20 years at Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison.
Nay Phone Latt, 28, a former member of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, was sentenced yesterday, along with five other activists and members of the National League for Democracy (NLD).
"Nay Phone Latt was once an NLD youth member, but he left the party when he was arrested. He was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment,'' NLD spokesman Nyan Win said.
Nyan Win said the poet Saw Wai was sentenced to two years in prison for defaming the state in a poem that referred to junta head Than Shwe.
He did not have any information on the four others sentenced yesterday.
Nay Phone Latt's blog was written in the Burmese language and in the style of a novel.
He used it as a forum to discuss the difficulties of daily life, such as the regular power outages and the rising cost of living.
The blog was banned by Burma's military regime, and Nay Phone Latt was arrested in January this year during a round-up of activists linked to the huge anti-junta protests in September 2007.
About 200 NLD members and activists were arrested during and after the September protests, when up to 100,000 people spilled onto Rangoon's streets.
The United Nations has said that at least 31 people were killed and 74 remain missing after the military finally cracked down on the movement.
The military was outraged by bloggers during the September protests, when they provided running accounts of state violence.
The junta cut off the nation's internet links at the height of the protests, choking off the flow of information about the crackdown.
2 comments:
My God, we wouldn't have enough jails!
If some Logan Crs would just do the job they were elected to do there would be fewer critics. Unfortunately there are those crs who think they were elected to be dictators and just adhere to their own agendas.
There is no 'Team Logan' and so the loudest voices shout everyone down.
I would like to know why this council is being perceived as the worst council in Queensland and some say even worse than the defunct BSC. There has to be a way to clean house without waiting for elections.
If some councillors had it their way , as you say unowho, local bloggers would be put away never to release the real story of how these elected people behave and administer your wishes as they interpret them.
Thank god someone defies these mongerals and publishes what is really going on because the local papers are too gutless.
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