‘We lost our sight’: Life in Myanmar under world’s longest Internet shutdown

Traditional dancers wait to perform at the Rakhine State Investment Fair at Ngapali beach in Thandwe, Rakhine, Myanmar. The country’s bloodiest conflict in decades has spiralled despite the Internet shutdown and more than a dozen residents said the blackout had made their lives worse. — Reuters

Since Myanmar shut off the Internet in two states a year ago, lawyer Oo Twan Hla, who was once able to check online when his cases were scheduled, said he must now travel through a war zone to read a signboard.

An aspiring medic, in a community largely barred from accessing healthcare, can no longer search the Web for remedies to help sick neighbours.