The military government that rules Myanmar is seizing telephones and internet-capable computers.
Images of the regime’s brutal reprisals against Buddhist monks and pro-democracy demonstrators have been spread around the world in recent days.
Last week the country’s public internet link was severed, though embassy internet connections and satellite telephones continued to operate. Now those links are gone as well.
This self-debilitation would seem to present a golden opportunity for India, whose foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, promised on Sunday to improve Myanmar’s telecommunications infrastructure, among other things.
(It must be said that Mukherjee was apparently reading the same speech he gave four months earlier.)
