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Junta seeks to control narrative by jailing journalists

As a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster contemplated the brooding skies near a terminal window at Yangon international airport.

For a while, the threat of foreigners being seized at the airport by Myanmar’s military was real, but after watching international reporters exit the country safely in April, Fenster was more worried about turbulence.

He had arrived in Myanmar two years before,

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