Shut-off internet, state of emergency and night raids on regime opponents.
The world is reacting with dismay to the military junta's tough takeover of power in Myanmar.
Swedish Sida is now restricting parts of its aid to the country, but continues to support organizations working for democracy and human rights.
The total Sida support to Myanmar amounts to SEK 300 million.
- It is a small part of our commitment that is affected, about ten percent of the collaboration.
The big parts are about support for independent actors who work for democracy and are involved in peace processes, safe health care in the country's conflict areas, and reaching out to young people with sexual education, says Göran Holmqvist, to TT.
The United States has already imposed economic sanctions on the military junta, including by freezing the generals' assets abroad.
Protesters are on guard
According to Ulrika Bergsten, SVT's Asia correspondent on site in Beijing, Norwegian Telenor has also taken a stand against the junta.
- Telenor has said that it does not intend to comply with the new laws introduced by the military.
The junta has wanted to introduce rules similar to those in China, which block sites on which the democracy movement is located.
Telenor says that it violates freedom of expression laws, says Ulrika Bergsten in SVT's Morgonstudion.
"Want to take the energy out of the movement"
According to Ulrika Bergsten, the democracy movement is still alive in the country, despite the defeat from the military.
- Last night, the internet was turned off and according to information, the military has tried night raids.
But the inhabitants are well prepared for the junta's tactics, so you have a kind of civic guard who keeps watch, she says.
- They are looking for symbolically important resistance fighters who have led protests and threaten them with long prison sentences.
You want to take the energy out of the resistance movement.
It is currently unclear where the country's democratically elected leaders, who have been arrested by the military junta, are.
According to information, they are under house arrest.
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