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Myanmar: Internet shutdowns shrouding
torchings and killings
Content note: this statement contains references to violence, murder,
and potential war crimes.
For months, the Myanmar military has systematically imposed
internet shutdowns to facilitate an aggressive scorched-earth
campaign across the nation. Internet, mobile, and landline
connections are cut in an impending sign of a military attack — and
as shutdowns reign for days on end, entire villages, schools, places
of worship, and personal property are torched, villagers killed, and
food and other necessary supplies destroyed. Internet shutdowns
have fortified the military’s oppressive “Four Cuts”
(https://www.thechindwin.com/myanmars-military-juntareintroduces-the-four-cuts-strategy-against-civilians/)strategy
(https://www.thechindwin.com/myanmars-military-junta-
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