6/11/22, 12:15 PM Myanmar’s military junta eliminates independent media | RSF VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS INDEPENDENCE AND PLURALISM LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND JUSTICE SYSTEM DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA NEWS Myanmar’s military junta eliminates independent media Des forces de l'ordre armées courent vers des manifestants pour disperser leur manifestation à Rangoun, le 27 février (crédit : AFP). ORGANISATION:  RSF_en Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the restoration of media pluralism and unrestricted Internet access in Myanmar, where the military, in the weeks since staging a coup d’état on 1 February, have reasserted full control over news and information – engineering the disappearance of the last independent newspapers and imposing tight curbs on online access. There is no longer a free press in Myanmar. The only print media have been official newspapers controlled by the military since 17 March, after the last independent daily in circulation, The Standard Time (San Taw Chain in Burmese), took the same decision as its four rivals and suspended its print edition, citing distribution problems since the coup. Ten days after the information ministry told media to stop using the terms “junta” and “coup d’état” or face sanctions, the Myanmar Times suddenly suspended operations https://rsf.org/en/myanmars-military-junta-eliminates-independent-media 1/4