Burmese activists have been getting out photos, video and eyewitness accounts using mobile phones, blogs, and the good old mailing lists. Also, news organizations like Aljazeera, BBC and Guardian have been using eyewitness accounts and blogs to find content. Here's some of the best sources I came across, it would be useful to use them altogether:
Here is a list of useful Burmese blogs (not all in English):
- http://www.irrawaddy.org/protests/BurmaProtests.php
- http://mizzima.com/Foto-2007/Sep/Index.html
- http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
- http://moemaka.blogspot.com/
- Guardian's newsblog is well updated - minute by minute - onthe
- Aljazeera has a reporter on the ground - filming but can't show his face - brown their youtube channel.
- BBC is pulling together eyewitness accounts in text, audio and video. Very informative
- Global Voices Burma is aggregating Burmese blogs.
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