Bloggers use pictures, videos to get information out

WITH all internal media controlled by the state, the internet is one of the last routes left for getting eyewitness reports from inside Burma.

For a country famed for its totalitarian regime and repressive control of information, people are taking great personal risk by posting video footage captured on mobile phones.

Vincent Brussels, head of the Asian section of press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders, said: “It is amazing how the Burmese are able through underground networks to get things from outside and inside.