Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko nga papaaho taarua, pouaka whakaata me te ipurangi i Burma (e mohiotia ana hoki ko Myanmar) kua kaha te tirotiro me te ture mai i te wa o te Ture o Myanmar.
Ko te 1962 Burmese coup d'état. E whakarite ana te kaupapa ture mō te herekore o te kōrero me te pāpāho; heoi anō, e ārai ana te kāwanatanga i te whakamahinga o ēnei tika i roto i te mahi. Ko Reporters Without Borders i whakanohoia a Burma ki te 174 o te 178 i roto i tana 2010 Press Freedom Index, kei mua noa atu i a Iran, Turkmenistan, North Korea, me Eritrea. I te tau 2015, i piki ake a Burma ki te 144th, i mua i te nuinga o ona hoa noho o ASEAN penei i Singapore, na nga rereketanga o te ao i te whenua.