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YANGON, KOMPAS.com – Myanmar’s army cut off the country’s internet network on Saturday (6/2/2021), as thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon to fight the coup and demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
A military coup has hit Myanmar since Monday (1/2/2021). The masses opposed the forced use of power and many criticized the armed forces.
“The military dictatorship fails, fails. Democracy wins, wins,” they shouted while some carried banners that read “Fight against the military dictatorship.”
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Passersby were offered food and drink, according to journalists’ tracking Reuters in the place.
Many of the counter-coup masses wore red T-shirts, the color of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won a landslide victory in the November 8, 2020 elections.
However, as the protests escalated after activists posted requests on social media, the country’s internet died.
Internet watcher NetBlocks reports that the internet outage has occurred on a national scale.
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On Twitter, they explained, connectivity fell to 54 percent from the usual level. Some say that mobile data and Wi-Fi are also disabled.
The Myanmar military has yet to comment. They had previously blocked Facebook, followed by Twitter and Instagram today.
Norwegian mobile service provider Telenor has received orders from the Myanmar authorities to block access to Twitter and Instagram until further notice.
As a result, many Burmese use VPNs, but the flow of information and access to news is still very limited.
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“The Internet is dead, but we will not stop talking,” wrote a Twitter account called Maw Htun Aung.
“Let us fight peacefully for democracy and freedom. Let us fight until the last minute for our future,” he continued in a tweet that was quoted as saying. Reuters.
Myanmar civil society organizations have also called on mobile network and internet providers to reject military orders.
“By obeying your orders, your company is basically legitimizing the military authority, despite the international condemnation it has given them,” one of the organizations said in a statement.
Telenor said that before shutting down the Internet they were legally obliged to follow orders to block some social networks.
However, they also realized that the order went against international human rights law.
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