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The Propaganda System in Myanmar
Hussein created something called the patronage system in Myanmar. Any government worker at all has to pay a certain percentage of their income to the next in the chain of command. So police officers will be speak to say they get paid $168 a month. They will be expected to pay half of that to their sergeant. And their sergeant needs to payhalf of their salary to the next person up. This is a natural progression of that, where you're able to have huge compounds where the landlords are paid off and that money trickles down. It's an inherently corrupted criminal system. The same time as that, similar kind of networks operating different places,. Myanmar is different because in a full scale