Young people in Myanmar fight internet outages with underground newsletter
By AFP
18 April 2021 |
2:04 pm
Young people in Myanmar are fighting the ruling junta's internet shutdown and information suppression with an explosive underground printed newsletter called 'Molotov' that they are secretly distributing across communities.
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