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Eleven Media Group, ‘Mandalay Mayor detained again’, 9 February 2021,
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/mandalay-mayor-detained-again
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Myanmar Times, ‘မေလးဓိေတာ္ဝန္အဖစ္တာဝန္ေပးအပ္ခံရသူ ီးေကာ္ဆန္း တာဝန္စတင္ထမ္းေဆ၁င္’ [‘U Kyaw San, the new mayor
of Mandalay, takes office’], 11 February 2021, https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/151180.html
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Myanmar Now, ‘မေလးကို ေစာင့္ကည့္မည့္ ဟာေဝးကင္မရာမား စစ္ေကာင္စီကို အပ္ံ’ [‘Huawei cameras to monitor Mandalay
handed over to military council’], 19 June 2021, https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/7162
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M.P. Phyo, ‘Huawei to Supply Mandalay’s “Safe City” Project with Cameras, Security Equipment’, The
Irrawaddy, 9 May 2019, https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/huawei-supply-mandalays-safe-cityproject-cameras-security-equipment.html
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CCTV Cameras Myanmar, ‘Mandalay, Myanmar – Police Command Center’, Facebook, 7 December 2015,
https://www.facebook.com/CCTV.Cameras.Myanmar/posts/461288577405393/
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For more context on special departments within the Myanmar Police Force, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_Police_Force
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R. Chandran, ‘Fears of "digital dictatorship" as Myanmar deploys AI’, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 18
March 2021, https://news.trust.org/item/20210318130045-zsgja/
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C. Norris, M. McCahill, and D. Wood, ‘The growth of CCTV: a global perspective on the international
diffusion of video surveillance in publicly accessible space’. Surveillance & Society 2, no. 2 (2004): 110–135.
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Forbes India, ‘Delhi, Chennai among most surveilled in the world, ahead of Chinese cities’, 25 August 2021,
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/news-by-numbers/delhi-chennai-among-most-surveilled-in-theworld-ahead-of-chinese-cities/69995/1
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Norris, et al., ‘The growth of CCTV’.
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J. Rosen, ‘A watchful state’, New York Times, 7 October 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/
magazine/a-watchful-state.html; A. Linn, ‘Post 9/11, surveillance cameras everywhere’, NBC, 23 August
2011, https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44163852
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F. Adams-O’Brien, ‘Is there Empirical Evidence that Surveillance Cameras Reduce Crime?’, MTAS Research
and Information Center, September 2016, https://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/knowledgebase/thereempirical-evidence-surveillance-cameras-reduce-crime
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R.V. Liedka, A.J. Meehan, and T.W. Lauer, ‘CCTV and campus crime: Challenging a technological “fix”’,
Criminal Justice Policy Review 30, no. 2 (2019): 316–338.
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M. Gill, J. Bryan, and J. Allen, ‘Public Perceptions of CCTV in Residential Areas: “It Is Not As Good As We
Thought It Would Be”’, International Criminal Justice Review 17, no. 4 (2007): 304–324.