Press Scrutiny and Registration Division director to be promoted

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:23 Salai Han Thar San

New Delhi (Mizzima) - The Ministry of Information's Press Scrutiny and Registration Division’s (PSRD) top official, Major Tint Swe, will be promoted to a position within a different department.
As he is to become Deputy Chief Director in another department also under the Ministry of Information, Lieutenant Colonel Myo Myint Aung will assume the position vacated by the departure of Major Tint Swe.

Lieutenant Colonel Myo Myint Aung joined PSRD as a Joint Director. Meanwhile, concerns have arisen over the possibility that rules and regulations governed by the PSRD will become stricter.

“Every time there is a change in the PSRD’s director position there is more censorship regarding the literature and media community. In fact, it would be best if there is nobody to mismanage the post,” commented one experienced magazine editor.

Major Tint Swe has worked as a director in the PSRD since 2005. Prior to joining the PSRD he worked at Myawaddy Magazine House. He has penned some articles under the alias ‘Ye Yint Tint Swe’.

The PSRD censors not only news media, but also songs, religious books, biographies, historical and political works.

Writers, musicians and artists - referencing Japan’s fascist police that occupied much of Burma during World War II - contemptuously refer to the division as “Literature Kempatai”.