Tanintharyi Region internet and phone disconnection, May 2022
2022-05-24 → Resolution unclear
- Tanintharyi: confirmed by 2 independent sources — STOP + BGP — last checked 2026-07-11
DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. Access Now's STOP dataset records mobile internet and phone line disconnection by the military council starting May 24, 2022 across Dawei, Launglong, and Thayetchaung townships. As with the Kayah State record above, STOP's status field is "Ongoing" with no end date — reflecting the dataset not being revisited, not a live claim. STOP-anchored only; no detection-sequence backfill attempted (outside M2's top-5 scope).
Resolution note: No source confirms when this specific May 2022 cutoff ended. Stale-ongoing review (M2 patch, 2026-07): evidence points against reading it as one unbroken 4-year blackout — this same area shows a pattern of distinct, separately-dated shutdown episodes through 2025 (coastal Launglon villages, Feb 2025–ongoing at time of report; Launglon township, May 31–Jun 21 2025; Dawei township, Jul 25 2025–ongoing at time of report), which only makes sense if connectivity was intermittently restored between incidents rather than continuously down since 2022. Reclassified from ongoing to unresolved rather than either assumed-continuous or guessed-ended. See internal research notes — flagged for a maintainer scope decision on whether Tanintharyi needs a recurring-pattern grouping analogous to 2025-sagaing-recurring-shutdowns.
Detection sequence
- Access Now STOP
Access Now STOP record: mobile internet and phone lines disconnected by the junta across Dawei, Launglong, and Thayetchaung townships, Tanintharyi Region.
- IODA
IODA cross-check (maintainer research, 2026-07): queried region 2759 (Tanintharyi) directly. bgp: full data coverage throughout 2022, flat at a constant 'fully up' value with zero drop detected around May 24, 2022 or at any point through year-end. ping-slash24: this region DOES have real probe coverage (unlike Kayah) — day-by-day around the event date (May 15–Jun 14, 2022) shows normal noise-level single-day dips both before and after May 24 (typical of this signal generally), but no sustained drop coinciding with or following the reported cutoff date. Result: NO SIGNAL on either datasource, consistent with sub-country/mobile-level resolution limits — a three-township mobile/phone disconnection would not necessarily register at region-aggregate level. Does not resolve or contradict this event's unresolved status; not used to change it.