Sarah Dean

Bloggers go armed with mobile phones in Burma

Several reporters in Burma used the internet, email and mobile phones to send stories and images to Thailand.

Aung Zaw, editor of Irrawaddy, a news magazine for expatriate Burmese in Thailand, told The Age : "It's a huge risk, we cannot identify them and must be extremely cautious because they could be imprisoned for sending information to us."

One prolific blogger, "Moezack", whose photos and words about the protests were used extensively by the international media, has slipped back into the darkness after his blog, http://moezack.blogspot.com/ went blank.

posted by Sarah Dean @ 05:40