One of foreign freelance journalists was deported yesterday after she visited NLD headquarters and interviewed with NLD seniors. Nowadays, SPDC has been watching all foreigners who are being in Rangoon and tailing what they are doing where they are going.
Special Branch policemen tailed her from NLD office to her hotel and the few days later, police rated the hotel room and searched her belonging and they questioned why she had been in Rangoon. There were few different units also followed her. During her investigation another group showed up but they backed off after they learnt that she was being questioned by one group.
During investigation, she realized that she was asked to cooperate or she must be sent to the detention center for visiting NLD. Policemen said all tourists are not allowed to visit there (NLD office), she replied do you have any official tourist information and instructions of restricting to visit NLD office?
She called her embassy after her situation was very tense. Later, embassy staff came to her hotel and informed her that she has to leave from the country immediately. She was lucky enough to keep pictures and her hand writing notes that SB policemen did only search her language. One hour later, she was escorted by policemen to the airport and flew out from Burma.
She noted that country is more complicated and more hardship for the people even in Rangoon, there were more plainclothes security personnel near the NLD office. She witnessed the NLD youth and members demonstrated at Lady’s birthday and civil militia stormed the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi supporters. She said the reality and what international aid agencies said was totally different, Burma is not normal.
Her main intention was to follow the news of well known social activist and movie director Ko Zarganar’s detention, but nobody knows where he is and development of NLD political role after referendum, she said.
