Myanmar army arrests film critic for threatening stability

Military authorities announced this week that they had detained a Yangon resident after he criticized the depiction of people of Indian descent in a movie poster and accused him of inciting instability.

Shein Htet Aung, also known as Vee Htet Kumar, a Hindu man in his 30s living in Yangon’s Hlaing township, had taken to Facebook to express his disapproval after seeing a poster for a recently released film.

The first half of the film’s title translated to “Have you ever driven a Jeep?” in Burmese, while a second sentence was a stereotypical imitation of the language or accent of Myanmar’s Indian minority.

Although many critics have been arrested in the years since the coup, Shein Htet Aung is the first to be arrested for his opinion on a film.

Shein Htet Aung’s family lost communication with him after he attended Khaweichan School for the Blind. . .

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