The new military leadership in Myanmar has ordered a temporary ban on the online network Facebook, which its opponents used to call for civil disobedience after Monday’s coup. Local telecommunications providers were ordered yesterday by the Department of Transportation to block access to Facebook until the end of the week. The platform contributes to the destabilization of the country, it was said to justify.
The military in Myanmar couped to power on Monday night, arrested the de facto head of government Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians and imposed a one-year state of emergency on the Southeast Asian country.
Suu Kyi, who is very popular with the people, is said to have been under house arrest ever since. The new military leadership wants to indict the Nobel Peace Prize winner for high treason.
„People protested against military coup“
In the second largest city in the country, Mandalay, there was a street protest for the first time since the coup. About 20 people gathered in front of Mandalay Medical School, a video on Facebook showed.
The protesters called for Suu Kyi’s release and chanted, „Our arrested leaders, release them now, release them now“. A banner read: „The people are protesting against the military coup.“
Since the coup, calls for civil disobedience and videos of protests have spread on Facebook. The platform is far more popular than other Internet platforms in the country with 54 million inhabitants.
Many Facebook users shared videos in which residents of the largest city, Yangon, lean out of the windows of their houses during the evening curfew and make noise with pans and pans to protest against the takeover of power by the military.
