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RESISTING CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA

© Manon Ott & Grégory Cohen With fifteen different pen names and constant recourse to use of style, Ludu Sein Win uses many different methods of getting around censorship. He refuses to give in to fear, but admits that sometimes he lacks the most “intimate” freedoms. "They even want to control our thoughts”. Propaganda, surveillance and censorship are part of everyday life for Burmese people. They are also fighting absurdity, which they encounter on an everyday basis. A painting banned for excessive use of the colour red, seven year prison sentences for the Moustache Brothers for an ironic sketch about corruption in the police during a show. The junta hopes to use these coercive measures to discourage any dissident ideas. However, taking a closer look, between the lines or in private, a certain number of attitudes and actions are the expression of political non-conformism. As sparse and benign as they may seem, this behaviour is no less signs of courage and rebellion. The sign that, little by little, the dictatorship is breaking down. >> READ Ludu Sein Win’s story, a famous Burmese writer

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