Jonah Fisher is a correspondent for

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and its first resident correspondent for

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

. Jonah Fisher is an experienced BBC correspondent and during an eventful 10 years working for the BBC has been based in

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Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

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and most recently,

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. He has worked on many features for the BBC including
interviewing Buddhist monk Wirathu
and members of Burma's Muslim community who have been caught up in clashes with Buddhist nationalists in 2013, accompanying

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tracking whales hunted by the Japanese

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fleet; and violence against journalists by Sudanese security forces outside

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

where he was attacked. From 2012 to 2014, Fisher was the BBC's correspondent in

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where he covere
anti-government protesters in Bangkok
as demonstrators try to unseat the Thai Prime Minister

Yingluck Shinawatra Yingluck Shinawatra ( th, ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร, , ; ; born 21 June 1967), nicknamed Pou ( th, ปู, , , meaning "crab"), is a Thai businesswoman, politician and a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the Pri ...

Myanmar Resident Correspondent

Jonah Fisher is the first resident correspondent for the BBC in Myanmar.

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, Director of BBC Global News, said: “The appointment of Jonah Fisher marks another important milestone in the rapid welcome changes taking place in Burma/Myanmar. Censorship and repression are being replaced with a new media environment where the BBC can freely broadcast trusted and impartial news. The BBC's charity

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will continue its work to help train the next generation of Burma/Myanmar journalists which will further contribute to the country’s transition towards media freedom. These investments are part of our commitment to our audiences in Burma/Myanmar and we look forward to covering the historic elections in 2015.” In February 2017, he attracted attention for his alleged arrogance and rude behavior when questioning a group of monks in

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, Myanmar.

ANC outburst

Following a comment by Fisher to

Julius Malema Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981) is a South African politician and activist who is a Member of Parliament and the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a left-wing party which he founded in 2013. He was formerly the President of ...

("You live in

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."), Malema spoke:Malema’s tirade at the BBC, journalism and the world – word for word
'', Times :''Malema'': Let me tell you before you are ''tjatjarag'' (

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: excitable, or, to speak a lot) – this is a building of a revolutionary party and you know nothing about the revolution. So here you behave or else you jump (audience laughs). Don’t laugh. Chief, can you get security to remove this THING here. If you are not going to behave, we are going to get security to take you out. This is not a news room this, this is a revolutionary house and you don’t come here with that white tendency, not here. You can do it somewhere else, not here. If you have got a tendency of undermining blacks even where you work, you are in the wrong place. Here you are in the wrong place. :''Fisher'': ...that’s rubbish... :''Malema'': You can go out…rubbish is what you have covered in that trouser – that is rubbish. That which you have covered in

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clothes is rubbish, ok? You are a small boy you can’t do anything. Go out…bastard! Go out! You bloody agent!

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