Update: Burma Closes Internet Cafes To Stop Public Uploading Videos Of Protests

It has been reported that military leaders in Burma have cut all access to the internet to the public to try and stop videos and pictures of the bloody anti-government protests getting out to the rest of the world.

At the moment in capital Rangoon it is believed that an area has been sealed off to try and contain the protest where at least 9 people have been killed. One of these fatalities was a Japanese journalist who had been reporting on 70,000 demonstrators.

Truckloads of troops in riot gear raided Buddhist monasteries and arrested hundreds of protesting monks. The pro-democracy campaigners have said they will “strike back” against the Burmese government after the military began using lethal force.

Ko Aung is the leading demonstrator outside the Burmese Embassy in London has claimed opposition groups in Rangoon had told him of their will to continue their protests.

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