Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications ordered all mobile phone operators on Friday to suspend Internet data in nine townships across Rakhine and neighbouring Chin State.
“As a basis for its request, the MoTC has referenced disturbances of the peace and Internet services to coordinate illegal activities,” Telenor Myanmar said in a statement. The decree was made under the Telecommunications Law, hitting all mobile operators for an unspecified period.The Rakhine are Buddhists and are also fighting in northern Chin State which borders their homeland.
The Rakhine accuse the army of committing abuses – including arbitrary arrests – against them, while the military confirmed it shot dead six Rakhine detainees in late April.Villagers in Rakhine said the mobile data ban had cut them off from the outside world, where few have personal computers and most people share information on the violence through social media.
“We have no Internet at all. We use the Internet to share information through Viber,” Kyaw Soe Moe, head of Inn Din village in Rathedaung, said.A police officer in Mrauk U town, home to Rakhine temples but also the seat of ferocious fighting in recent months, said that communication was being hampered. — AFP
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