Myanmar junta suspends all wireless broadband networks until further notice

Myanmar’s military junta has ordered the suspension of wireless broadband services. News of the clampdown came from local carriers, such as Ooredoo, which shared the following image explaining that, following a coup, the now-ruling military regime issued a directive that all wireless broadband services must be suspended as of …

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously not ruling

If they're *shooting* the people, then they're not *ruling* the people.

If they're shooting so many of them, that they have to turn off internet so the outside world cannot see the bodies, then clearly the people are not obeying the new wannabe dictator, even after shooting a lot of them.

The other generals should ask themselves if they want to die with General Min Aung Hlaing as his short rule descends into civil war. If they turn against him and flip sides, Min can flee across the border to China and they can declare themselves heroes for restoring democracy. End the war on the Myanmar people, end the flood of refugees across the borders.

[BOFH in Training]

Am kind of of two minds in this case.

When Rohingya were murdered, raped, chased out of the country (I think genocide is mentioned in certain circles), they didnt want international observers and help.

Now that they are having their own issues with the military, they are screaming for help from everyone.

I understand thats the same reason why some governments are kind of lukewarm towards this coup.

That's why Aung San Suu Kyi is not having people rushing to her defence from around the world either.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[Alan Brown]

Exactly this. I warned my (now ex) wife that a coup was coming back in 2018 if attitudes didn't change and got screamed at about being "treacherous" (along with tirades about "muslims are not burmese" and rohingya being subhuman)

The world was hoping for another Nelson Mandela, ended up with another Robert Mugabe and is now facing another Yugoslavia (there are at least 4 long-running separate secessionist operations within Myanmar. Surpringly the Rakhine state area isn't one of them and harsh religious intolerance/oppression is at the core of a lot of the problems. Buddhism (as practised by burmese) is not a peaceful religion and the Burmese don't seem to have gotten over being invaded/subjgated by Ghengis Khan 1000 years ago)

Internet connectivity has always (quite deliberately) been rotten in Myanmar and anyone who can afford it pays for direct satallite links from Thai providers. These bans only affect the middle classes and poor

[Henry Wertz 1]

I don't know who to support there

It's tough, I don't know who to support there.

Myanmar/Burma had a military dictatorship, during this time Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest for years and years for speaking out against the military dictatorship that ran the country. Successfully, the country finally got elections and elected her. From what I've read, she was apparently just fine for 6 months to a year then... I don't know what happened (sounds like it was pretty sudden, almost like she had a mental breakdown or stroke or something) but she suddenly became quite brutal toward her political opponents, there've been no elections since (after speaking against dictatorship, she became a dictator), and there's been widescale genocide under her regime (... whether she ordered it, or just let her officials do what they wanted and didn't stop it, I don't know... but as a dictator she obviously could have stopped it if she wanted to, and in fact did stop it for the first year or so of her rule.)

I'm not for a military overthrow, especially when it's brutal. But, the person they overthrew was a rights advocate in the past, but in the present she was a brutal and genocidal dictator, so I'm not for her getting put back in place either. Welp, de 'nada, it's not my problem 8-)

I think what Alan Brown says is accurate; these religious/cultural groups there do not get along at all, to the point that there's widespread popular support for genocide (whatever group you're a member of, lets just wipe out one or two of the others.) I have no insight into this, if they are even fighting over anything (some resources they want control over) or if it's just tit-for-tat killings (this has been the cause of a lot of gang deaths in the US.. sometimes, they don't even remember what started it, but it'll just be "they killed one of ours, we've got to get one of theres", going on for decades.)

Could a Nelson Mandela show up, have a truth and reconciliation commission and put an end to it? I don't know; with apartheid, you definitely had those who thought they were better than the rest, and the reconcilliation commision did a great job of putting and end to this in a clean way; but, it seems like the Burmese have even stronger divides so I just don't know...