Dear Heather, ttscanada: > Hi all, > > For those that aren't aware, 800,000 Rohingya people in Burma are being > cut off from communication as the military and government try to drive > them out of the country. Over 100,000 are being starved to death in > concentration camps, the rest are driven into boats which neighbouring > countries are refusing to allow to land. There have been two large scale > massacres as well, one in June, one in October. Our contacts have been > saying for weeks there is another massacre planned for the end of March, > but even if there weren't, they are living in houses made of straw and > plastic bags with no food or medical aid and the rains are coming. This > is a full scale genocide supported by the current Burma/Myanmar > government. Media and aid groups are blocked and the people are jailed > just for having a TV, they have no phones. >
I'm well aware and having just been in Burma, I'm sad to say that most people in the world are unaware; those in Burma that know seem afraid to speak out. > More information, check out over 100 pages of links here > http://topsy.com/s/georgiebc+Rohingya?window=a the #Rohingya tag on > Twitter or google. > > We have a way to hopefully get some journalists in to document war > crimes. We need satellite phones for the Rohingya people as well, as > many as possible, donated would be great. If anyone has any ideas for a > good phone source it would be appreciated. Please be very careful - the communications systems in Burma are all highly monitored and heavily controlled. During my recent trip to Burma, I was part of a team that worked on a report about the communications systems in county. Please feel free to pass it on to people: http://www.opentechfund.org/article/access-and-openness-myanmar-2012 Satellite phones are extremely privacy invasive (interception, location tracking, etc) and short of the Cryptophone Satellite phone ( http://www.cryptophone.de/en/products/satellite/ ) used in a very specific way, I wouldn't even touch one of those devices if I thought that the Burmese military was possibly targeting me. All the best, Jacob -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
