The news fears the worst.
The Burmese junta ordered, Thursday April 1, the access providers to suspend wireless internet connections "until further notice" in Burma, we learned from a telecommunications operator.
Authorities have already ordered the suspension of mobile data transfers and the new cut risks crippling most online communications in the country, where very few people have access to landlines.
More than 535 people, including many students, adolescents and young children, were killed by security forces in two months, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP).
Hundreds of others, held incommunicado, are missing.
UN fears "bloodbath" in Burma
During an emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday requested by London, the UN envoy for Burma, Christine Schraner Burgener, warned of "a risk of civil war at an unprecedented level ", urging" to consider all the means at its disposal to (...) avoid a multidimensional catastrophe in the heart of Asia ".
The UN envoy for Burma warned that a "bloodbath" was "imminent" and called on Council members to act.
She also urged the Security Council to act against the military who overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi.
With AFP
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