Podcast: Speaking Freely in the New Burma
Aung San Suu Kyi on her way to delivering a speech to supporters during the 2012 by-election campaign. (Photo: Htoo Tay Zar/Wikimedia Commons)
As Burma opens up, political speech is less restricted, but testing it is still risky.
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