Burmese junta nobbles shortwave radios donated by China

The Democratic Voice of Burma reveals that the military authorities disabled the tuning systems on 2,000 shortwave radios donated by China as part of the emergency aid after Cyclone Nargis.

The authorities then distributed the radios in the Irrawaddy Delta and sent photos back to the Chinese to prove that they had been distributed.

But the only station the villagers could receive on them was the state-controlled radio station on mediumwave.

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Source: Media Network