Exclusive Interview with Thein Sein: From Junta Elite to Nobel Nominee
Saturday, 23 March 2013 11:35
Khin Maung Win
Download Since coming to power in 2011 Myanmar’s President Thein Sein has made dramatic reforms.
So far his administration has freed hundreds of political prisoners, held an historic parliamentary election and relaxed censorship laws.
The 67-year-old former general has promised that democratic reforms in Myanmar are "irreversible".
He recently spoke with the Democratic voice of Burma – a media organization who was banned and their journalists thrown in jail by the military.
Khin Maung Win the Deputy Director of DVB begins by asking the President if he will revise the controversial constitution that gives 15 percent of the seats in parliament to the military.