This was from yesterday's International Herald Tribune. In the local version I got in Hong Kong, this was the most prominent one on the front page, carrying a different title: "Cellphones vs. Guns in Myanmar".
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/03/asia/info.php Myanmar Comes Face to Face with a Technology Revolution Junta was unprepared for repression in the digital age By Seth Mydans Published: October 3, 2007 BANGKOK: It used to be easier: Close the borders, set up roadblocks, stop the trains, cut telephone lines, and then crack down on your people with impunity. This is what the military in the former Burma did when it crushed a pro-democracy uprising in 1988. Last week, when the generals began attacking Buddhist monks and their supporters in the streets of Myanmar, they discovered that the world had changed. People were watching. The junta had come face to face with a revolution in the technology of resistance in which a guerrilla army of citizen reporters was transmitting videos, photographs and news reports over the Internet even as events were unfolding. The images made their way on to television screens and into newspapers and the world was flooded with scenes of tens of thousands of red- robed monks in the streets and of chaos and violence as the junta stamped out the biggest popular uprising in two decades. The old technology of guns and clubs had been ensnared by the immediacy of electronic communication in a way the world had never seen. ...... http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/03/asia/info.php --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
