As the conflict in Myanmar continues to develop, it's clear that the country's government is doing their best to close off their actions from the outside world.

From the Reuters’s coverage: 

Myanmar's envoy Nyunt Swe criticised the Council for singling out     his country, but stopped short of rejecting its request for Pinheiro to visit. The Council should not be used by "powerful countries for political exploitation", he said.

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"As the protesters have become invisible, our concern only increases for the safety and well-being of the monks, presumably confined to their monasteries, if not worse, and for the hundreds of people arrested...and for those wounded and removed from the streets to unknown locations.”

The state of unrest in the country and the outright denial and feigned ignorance of the government speaks to a steadily worsening situation. Governments in North Korea and Sudan are similarly notorious for denying the problems and shutting their countries off from the rest of the world, especially in terms of information flow. In the case of Sudan, we see people who are still able to stand and fight and have their voices heard. But in the case of North Korea, there are adults in the country that don’t know what the internet is. A recent National Geographic investigation called Inside North Korea provides a chilling look at the way life is in a country that is so isolated. It’s frightening to see the government of Myanmar shut down the internet and monitor email traffic, actions which can only speak to the violence they’re trying to conceal.