Burma People’s Movement/Technology

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BURMA: With Technology as Weapon, Citizens Become Reporters

Posted: 2007-09-28

By Lynette Lee Corporal

BANGKOK, Sep 28 (IPS Asia-Pacific) – In sharp contrast to the lack of information during the 1988 military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Burma, streams of graphic accounts of the biggest uprising in two decades continue to come from within the country, aided by technology and the Internet.