[spacebandit]

consider also the pictures we see on our news daily from Burma, pictures and video taken on mobile phones and sent to foreign news agencies, most notably the BBC. We can see the horrifiuc thuggery and the crackdown being imposed on peaceful demonstrators.

If that was Britain today - the local party official would be able to find out not only who sent the pictures and video, but their location when they sent them. and before you know it they are spirited away, by jackbooted thugs to the same fate as the Buddhist monks

No more pictures to foreign press
No more truth leaking out about the state of Burma

All quiet on the Eastern front

So thats all right then.