Burma, it seems is taking cues from the Malaysian government in cracking down on internet freedom. The dictatorship there has taken it upon themselves to decide, what sis supposed to go online and what is not. This has led to sites and blogs being shut down and online dissidents being silenced. Raids on internet cafes have risen alarmingly.

Reporters Without Borders, (RSF) write that apart from this Burmese news sites are being hacked and blocked. These sites are based abroad and have all suffered Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks which make the inaccessible. One of the site, The Irrawady, a news magazine site, was attcked this way and has been inaccessible since 16th of September. Even though they set up a mirror site, they lost a significant number of visitors.

As we had reported earlier, a number of online dissidents continue to be held for daring to criticize the Military government, Nay Phone Latt, and Zarganar are currently in prison, and the number of citizens being arrested for participating in pro-democracy demonstrations.

Here at CPB we are in total support of the Burmese and will continue to expose, the Generals’ internet shutdown tactics.