Sun brush with Burmese police
on 15 May 2008
Nick Parker and Peter Jordan from
The Sun newspaper felt the long arm of the Burmese law this week. The reporter and snapper duo were stopped as they headed south into the Irrawaddy Delta,
We were ushered into an office where an immigration officer was waiting with pen poised. He seized our passports and began noting details as a podgy policeman appeared and barked in English: “No foreigners.â€
Moments later a plain-clothed policeman began photographing us. He said in broken English: “You cannot travel further down this road. It is a research area. Turn back or you will be punished...â€
...We doubled back towards the ferry port of Dala but gave spies the slip by hitching rides on motorbikes to pull off the main road. link via Press Gazette
