The Web sites of three Myanmar opposition media groups in exile suffered widespread cyber attacks on Thursday, the anniversary of last year’s folded uprising against the Southeast Asia country’s military dictatorship.

“We think it has something to do with the Saffron Revolution,” the anti-government protests by thousands of Buddhist monks in Myanmar on Sept. 18, 2007, said Aye Chan Naing. The chief editor of the Oslo-based radio and TV network Democratic Voice of Burma told The Associated Press that

computers began flooding the station’s servers with so many requests for knowledge on Wednesday that the systems could not manage.

Similar attacks on Thursday plus periodically shut down the servers of the Irrawaddy Magazine and the New Era Journal, Myanmar opposition media groups based in Thailand, he said. At its Web address, Irrawaddy confirmed that its service was not available due to a cyber attack.

The military dictatorship that has ruled Myanmar, […]

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