Friday, October 12, 2012

quote of the day - from former rfa reporter Ko Nyo

တနည္းေျပာရရင္ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ အာအက္ဖ္ေအ႐ံုးေလး တရားမ၀င္ (နားလည္မႈေလးနဲ႔) ဖြင့္ႏိုင္ဘို႔အတြက္ကိုပ၊ ဲအစိုးရ အသားေပးသတင္းေတြ လႊင့္ထုတ္ၿပီး အာအက္ဖ္ေအ ရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကို ေရာင္းစားေနတယ္။ To put it another way, just to open a little office (in Rangoon) not even a legal office yet, but still subject to an understanding (with the Myanmar Government) RFA has sold its integrity and is propagating "news" that favor the (military) junta. unofficial translation.
VOA newscast, not RFA - frame grab for illustrative purposes

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