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Burma Junta Continues Communications Clampdown
Burmese Junta's Continuing Communications Clampdown
Burma's ruling junta is now targeting the last remaining communications links to the outside world. Channels that transmitted images of protests by Buddhists monks and members of the '88 Generation Students during September are being relentlessly hunted down and neutralized.
A recent report from the Thai/Burma border states that ten satellite telephones and numerous computers earlier smuggled into Burma have been seized, the last lines of contact after the government shut down the internet and blocked mobile and fixed-line telephones.
Officials from Burma's Foreign Affairs Ministry and Home Department also visited a United Nations office in the Traders Hotel in downtown Rangoon late last week, demanding to see the organization's permits for its satellite phones.
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