Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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‘The Lady’ biopic premiers at Toronto Film Festival

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:44 Mizzima News

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Director Luc Besson’s much-anticipated biopic of the life of Aung San Suu Kyi premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada on Monday.

The film focuses on Suu Kyi’s relationship with her British husband Michael Aris after Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 to care for her ailing mother, leaving Aris and their two sons, Alexander and Kim at home in Oxford.

Actress Michelle Yeoh, shown here, portrays Aung San Suu Kyi in "The Lady," the story of the democracy icon's life with her husband Michael Aris and her family. Photo: Courtesy "The Lady"

Suu Kyi was soon plunged into the country’s democracy uprising and became general-secretary of the National League for Democracy which gained more than 80 per cent of the vote in the 1990 general election. The military disregarded the public vote, however, and refused to hand over power.

When Suu Kyi was first placed under house arrest in 1990––she would spend most of the next two decades under house arrest––and did not see her husband again. After being diagnosed with prostrate cancer in 1997, Aris was refused a visa to enter Burma, despite pleas to the military junta from the then UN Secretary-General and Pope John Paul II. He later died in England in 1999, without having seen Suu Kyi again.

Filming of ‘The Lady’ took place in England, France, Thailand and Burma. Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh portrays Suu Kyi, and British actor David Thewlis plays Aris.

Yeoh visited Suu Kyi just one month after her release from house arrest last year in December 2010. She attempted another visit in June this year but was deported immediately.

Yeoh told The Hollywood Reporter that it was the Burmese government that alerted the media to her deportation and that, “It (also) showed how irrational and erratic they [Burma’s military government] are.”

She said, “I will be back. I will go to that country.”

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