{
  "id": "2021-nightly-curfew",
  "title": "Nightly internet curfew era, 2021",
  "class": "national",
  "type": "throttle",
  "status": "unresolved",
  "date_start": "2021-02-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "date_end": "2021-03-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "end_date_confidence": "estimated",
  "resolution_note": "Maintainer research (internal research notes, 2026-07): no source states a discrete \"curfew lifted\" date. Wikipedia's \"Internet in Myanmar\" timeline and contemporaneous reporting (OONI, Asia Centre, Reuters) describe the 1am-9am curfew as in place through early/mid-March 2021, then effectively superseded by a stricter nationwide mobile-internet shutdown beginning Mar 15, 2021. date_end here uses Mar 15, 2021 as the most defensible proxy for when the curfew phase ended AS A DISTINCT PATTERN — flagged end_date_confidence: estimated since it marks supersession by a harsher measure, not a \"curfew lifted\" event. This independently corroborates this event's own narrative, which had already derived ~Mar 15 from RSF's 11-day mobile-cut figure before this research round.\n",
  "scope": {
    "regions": [],
    "townships": [],
    "asns": [],
    "operators": []
  },
  "confidence": "corroborated",
  "detection_sequence": [
    {
      "layer": "ooni_anomaly",
      "at": "2021-02-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "OONI monthly aggregates for the period this curfew was reported active: Feb 2021 12.7% anomaly rate (443,319 measurements), Mar 2021 11.1% (111,902), Apr 2021 10.4% (84,416).",
      "signal_ids": []
    },
    {
      "layer": "media",
      "at": "2021-04-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "The Guardian: 'a wider shutdown has been imposed every night for almost 50 days' (dating the curfew's start to approximately Feb 11-12, 2021), with mobile data separately cut for 18 days by that point (approx. since Mar 15) and new cuts extending to wireless broadband.",
      "signal_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "verified_by": [
    "media"
  ],
  "narrative": "DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. Date_start (Feb 11, 2021) is derived from The Guardian's April 2, 2021 \"almost 50 days\" framing, not a direct first-hand date — flag this as an inferred-from-reporting date, not a primary-source-confirmed one. Reporters Without Borders' March 25, 2021 piece separately describes \"fixed-line Internet disconnected every night, mobile Internet blocked for the past 11 days\" — the RSF ~11-day mobile figure (implying a start around Mar 14) is close to but not identical to the Guardian's implied Mar 15 mobile-cut date; both are kept here as independent corroborating estimates rather than reconciled to one precise date, since neither source states an exact date directly. STATUS CAVEAT: same as 2021-02-nationwide-connectivity-cut — no source in this archive confirms when the nightly curfew pattern ended; \"ongoing\" reflects that gap, not a literal 2026 claim. No BGP/IODA layer: unavailable for this period (see that event's note).\n",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "The Guardian",
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/myanmar-coup-military-expands-internet-shutdown"
    },
    {
      "label": "Reporters Without Borders",
      "url": "https://rsf.org/en/myanmar-s-military-junta-eliminates-independent-media"
    },
    {
      "label": "Wikipedia: Internet in Myanmar",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Myanmar"
    },
    {
      "label": "OONI: Myanmar internet blocks and outages (Mar 8, 2021)",
      "url": "https://ooni.org/post/2021-myanmar-internet-blocks-and-outages/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Asia Centre briefing note: Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns (30 Mar 2021)",
      "url": "https://asiacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/Briefing-Note-Myanmar-Coup-and-Internet-Shutdowns.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "data_links": {
    "csv": "/data/events/2021-nightly-curfew.csv",
    "json": "/data/events/2021-nightly-curfew.json"
  }
}