Global Hit
Finally today — a story of music and politics.
In many countries, musicians are free to voice their political views through song.
Not so in Myanmar — or Burma.
There — political repression and censorship are severe.
That’s something that young Burmese hip hop artists have discovered first hand.
Andrea Smardon prepared this report.
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