Yangon Region jamming during junta-official visits, December 2025
2025-12-15 → Resolution unclear
- Yangon: confirmed by 2 independent sources — STOP + BGP — last checked 2026-07-11
DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. Two STOP records grouped as one pattern: both are short, localized jamming/cutoff incidents timed to specific military-official visits rather than conflict-driven blackouts, distinct in character from the Sagaing/Rakhine/Bago events. Neither STOP record gives an end date (both "Unknown" status) — these were likely brief, hours-long disruptions in practice, but nothing in the source confirms that. Duration question closed (maintainer research, 2026-07): confirmed Access Now/STOP is the only source covering either incident — no further duration or end-time confirmation exists to look for. resolution_note's existing "unresolved, plausibly brief" treatment stands as final, not as a gap awaiting more research.
Resolution note: No source gives an end date for either incident. Stale-ongoing review (M2 patch, 2026-07): both are VIP-visit-triggered jamming/cutoffs, inherently bounded in nature (jamming tied to a specific visit ends when the visit ends) and structurally unlike the region's other, conflict-driven, open-ended blackouts. Reclassified from ongoing to unresolved — the narrative's own prior text already said as much ("status is left as ongoing/unresolved") but the schema didn't yet have a way to express that distinction before this patch.
Detection sequence
- Access Now STOP
Access Now STOP record: jamming devices used by the military council in wards of Mingaladon and North Okkalapa townships during a deputy junta chief visit to a military nursing graduation ceremony.
- Access Now STOP
Access Now STOP record: internet and phone lines cut in Thanlyin township ahead of a visit by the junta leader.