Ten years ago, on March 30, 2011, the freshly elected president of Myanmar announced the start of a new era in his country’s politics.
In his inauguration speech, President Thein Sein, a former general, declared that his government would ‘guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens’ and reform laws to enable freedom of expression and other political rights.
I was one of the thousands of foreigners who flew into the country over the next few years to assist with what we hoped would be a move to a brighter future.
