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Mar 11, 2014
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Last month, press freedom in Burma suffered a setback when the government detained reporters and editors from the Unity Journal, a local publication that ran a story about an alleged secret chemical weapons plant in central Burma.

Instead of disproving the claims by allowing an inspection of the site, the government moved swiftly to arrest those who prod…

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