In an asap podcast, AP Thailand bureau chief DENIS D. GRAY offers NICOLAS B. TATRO some insight into the junta that's cracking down on pro-democracy protests.
It's a place with a troubling human rights record, a country that presents enormous challenges for journalists trying to report the news.
The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has spent a lot of time in the headlines since soldiers started firing on anti-government demonstrators -- many of them Buddhist monks -- in the capital last week. And yet the regime that runs the country remains mysterious and isolated from the world.
AP Thailand bureau chief DENIS D. GRAY has been helping coordinate coverage of the unrest for the AP. He also has memories of another Myanmar government crackdown he helped cover in 1988 -- when bullets fired by soldiers during a failed uprising left about 3,000 people dead.
In an asap podcast, Gray offers AP Deputy International Editor NICOLAS B. TATRO some insight into the secretive regime that has run Myanmar since that earlier crackdown.
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