6/13/22, 12:08 PM 46m people in Myanmar now use the internet, up 10m from last year | Coconuts Coconuts yangon Search... Home Coconuts Yangon News Food & Drink Subscribe on YouTube Lifestyle Features Travel Select City Create HTML5 ads Creating HTML5 banners has never been easier than with our intuitive drag-and-drop editor! Creatopy.com Open NUG’s nuts cradled by ‘ball lifter’ exile media: Tat spox A family friendlier visual metaphor created online, at left. Tatmadaw tuggernut Gen. Zaw Min Tun, at right. By Coconuts Yangon Apr 29, 2022 10:25am Yangon time Junta spokesperson Gen. Zaw Min Tun has blasted banned exiled media outlets as “ball lifters” for the civilian government in exile and dared them to ask his preferred questions. Frustrated by an ability to control the narrative, the military mouthpiece tried to reverse an insult for junta supporters in comments to reporters in which he said seven media outlets including Myanmar Now, Khit Thit, and Irrawaddy, were boosting the National Unity Government, aka NUG. He even had some hygiene tips for those he says are wrapped around anti-junta testicles. “NUG’s ball-lifter media … are they leprosy media?” he said. “If so, please wash your hands often, like the lyrics of the COVID-19 prevention song, and stay away from crowds.” “Ball lifter” has come to be a sobriquet for those who support the military in return for some advantage. He said reporters should instead be asking the NUG, which is led by lawmakers from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, why it was soliciting so much money. He mentioned Radio Free Asia, DVB TV News, The Irrawaddy, Mizzima, Myanmar Now and Khit Thit, whose media licenses were revoked two months after the 2021 coup. https://coconuts.co/yangon/news/ministry-of-communications-report-10-million-increase-in-internet-users-within-last-year/ 8/12