{"id":503,"date":"2007-09-28T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/09\/28\/watching-burma\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:57:28","slug":"watching-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/09\/28\/watching-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me how easy it was to find photos and accounts in realtime during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2006_Thai_coup_d'%C3%A9tat\">coup in Thailand<\/a> last year, compared to the dearth of information about what&#8217;s going on in Burma now.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to NPR just now, a caller made a claim that some of the army had split &#8211; if true, that would be extraordinary.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet no one seems to have the first way to confirm it.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the very first things the world could do to help is get a crateload of satellite phones and portable data stations into the country.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The BBC is printing personal accounts <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7011884.stm\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Read a few.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a flickr stream from someone inside Rangoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/naingankyatha\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A Burmese blog reporting on the ground (mostly in Burmese, but good sections of account in English) <a href=\"http:\/\/ko-htike.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An aggregator of Burmese news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burmanet.org\/news\/\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the source of the photo below.\u00c2\u00a0 (If it&#8217;s your photo, I&#8217;ll credit it or take it down, though I hope to be able to leave it up.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/evidence-of-death-sep-27-2007.JPG\" title=\"Burma\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/evidence-of-death-sep-27-2007.JPG\" alt=\"Burma\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me how easy it was to find photos and accounts in realtime during the coup in Thailand last year, compared to the dearth of information about what&#8217;s going on in Burma now.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening to NPR just now, a caller made a claim that some of the army had split &#8211; if true, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}