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Hunt's On for Burma's Hero Bloggers

Cyber dissidents on the lam

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 1, 2007 9:14 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Burmese bloggers whose accounts and photos of the Saffron Revolution and the brutal crackdown by the military dictatorship riveted the world last week are now  being hunted by authorities, reports the Times of London. With the Internet shut down and the streets swarming with troops, the bloggers have gone underground.

All computers are issued under license, so the bloggers are easy to trace. “When things were hot on the streets, we were not the main worry,” said one blogger who's been sleeping in a different place every night. “But as the situation cools down, they will follow us. They know who we are, they know we are bloggers, and I am afraid." 

Buddhist monks march in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. Security forces in Myanmar shot at least three people, and beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks Wednesday in the most violent crackdown on anti-government protests since they began last month, witnesses said. About 300 monks and activists were...
Buddhist monks march in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. Security forces in Myanmar shot at least three people, and beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks Wednesday in the most violent...   (Associated Press)
In this photo made from video released Friday Sept. 28, 2008, by the Democratic Voice of Burma, showing a Japanese journalist, seen at centre, as he falls to the street after being shot during a protest in Rangoon, Myanmar, on Thursday Sept. 27, 2007. The Japanese journalist identified as Kenji...
In this photo made from video released Friday Sept. 28, 2008, by the Democratic Voice of Burma, showing a Japanese journalist, seen at centre, as he falls to the street after being shot during a protest...   (Associated Press)
In this photo made available by the Mandalay Gazette, Myanmar soldiers with their weapons are seen in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. About 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered in the city Thursday despite a violent crackdown by security forces that drew international appeals for restraint by Myanmar's ruling...
In this photo made available by the Mandalay Gazette, Myanmar soldiers with their weapons are seen in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. About 10,000 anti-government protesters gathered...   (Associated Press)
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