The military rulers in Rangoon have taken the offensive in the battle to control the flow of information in the country.
Websites and internet blogs posting information and photographs of the government's action have been blocked. Telephone lines and mobile phone signals to monasteries, opposition politicians and student leaders have been cut. There have also been reports that mobile phone signals and telephone lines of domestic and foreign journalists have been cut.
All this has made it more difficult for people to upload pictures of the mass protests to be picked up by international satellite news channels and beamed around the world, including back to Burma.
In a sign that the military junta is afraid of foreign radio and satellite TV coverage of the protests and the crackdown, the state-run media has begun to blame foreign media for inciting the trouble.
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