Mizzima News

New Delhi: Using its draconian laws the Burmese Censor Board under the Ministry

of Information suspended the publication of '7 Days News' journal for reporting the

multiple murders in Green Bank, Kamayut Township, Rangoon.
The Rangoon based '7 Days News' weekly journal reported the multiple murders in

its 13th March issue with the headline 'Four souls taking order to find culprits'. It

was made to suspend publication for a week, a source close to Journal told

Mizzima.

The March 19 issue of the journal has been banned and will not be distributed to

the market.

"They banned Wednesday's issue. This issue reported the funeral ceremony and

what the police said besides having news photographs of the coffins. As far as we

know, the censor board didn't allow both the news headline and the news photo,

and ordered the editors to remove these. But we heard that the journal reported

them as supplementary news," an editor of a weekly journal said on condition of

anonymity.

Similarly the editors of 'The Voice' weekly journal published every Saturday were

summoned to the censor board office and ordered to sign the pledge. The weekly

journal also reported the news of the killing of five persons with news photographs.

"The editors of 'The Voice' journal were summoned and interrogated about the

news photograph and ordered to sign on the bond. The news photograph of

security personnel and police forces deployed at the crime scene appeared with the

news report. They had to just sign on the pledge. That's all," the editor added.

"But we learnt that no action was taken against other weekly journals, like 'Weekly

Eleven' and Flowers 'News Journal'. They too reported the multiple murders as it

appeared in the state-run media," he added.

On March 3, four family members and a housemaid at a residence under tight

security, near to the home of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, were

shot dead in broad daylight.

Businessman Charlie (Saw Kyipha), aged 60, and his wife San San Myint, 58, along

with their two daughters, Mya Sanda, 36, and Hnin Pwint Aye, 27, and their

housemaid Alphaw, 15, were all shot in the head inside the residence at No.126

Seinlaekanthar Street, Kamaryut Township.

The culprit, or culprits, is still at large and a police source says cash totaling at least

$90,000 was missing from the victim's home.