Same Same But Mae Sot
It is not easy to get information out of Myanmar, also known as Burma, these days. Mae Sot, a Southeast Asian trading town on the Thai-Burma border, is one of the places to find out what’s happening in Burma. Despite the military government’s promise to hold multi-party elections in 2010, Burmese refugees and resistance fighters say the crackdown on dissent in far from over. Jonathan Jones (’05) and Anna Sussman (’05) are backpack journalists who are traveling around the world. They put together this report for CurrentTV. Follow their journey online at The Backpack Journalist.







