Burma's "discipline-flourishing democracy" goes on the rampage against dissidents...

A popular comedian active in Burma's democracy movement has been sentenced to 45 years in jail by a Burmese court. 

Zarganar was found to have violated the Electronics Act, which regulates electronic communications. 

He is the latest in a string of opposition activists to be given long jail terms by the military government.

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Our correspondent says such breathtakingly disproportionate punishments send two clear messages from the generals who rule Burma: that they will brook no opposition in the lead-up to their carefully managed transition to what they are calling a "discipline-flourishing democracy"; and that they are unconcerned what the rest of the world thinks. More...

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