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MAWR armored vehicles on the streets andan extension to the detention off its former leader.

The latest developments in Myanmar point toe a further tightening of security measures in the country in the face of continuing protest.

The military takeover has sparked the biggest demonstrations seen in Myanmar in Mawr than a decade.

The lawyer for Young Sans Souci says she was being held for a further two days.

She had been due to be released today or more troops have been deployed.

Many drivers expressed their anger by beeping their horns.

Western embassies in Myanmar have called on the country's military to refrain from violence against demonstrators on civilians.

Thistle comes after reports security forces opened fire to disperse a protest, while the BBC Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has the latest on the week ahead for the civil disobedience movement.

Well, I think we'll see this This week will be different from the previous week for the first two weeks after the coup.

Uh we saw very rapid growth of what became a sort of nationwide civil disobedience movement with protests in every shape and form all across the country that were essentially blocked at certain places by police, occasionally opening fires.

We know, but mostly just letting them run the presence off these armored vehicles and a lot of soldiers.

And these are soldiers from combat units, units with frankly well deserved reputations for riel brutality, I think, will change the tone a lot.

The Internet blackout last night was interesting.

That was eight hours on it really frightened people.

We saw the scenes that you mentioned that the troops opening fire that was emission up in Kitchen State.

They used a lot of gunfire that might all have been into the air, but it was absolutely terrifying for the people.

Their automatic weapons fire in the dark of night to disperse people who are out there banging their pots and pans.

Everyone feared this would either herald a mass mass arrests or some other kinds of operations.

There doesn't appear to have been a lot that's happened, although there are rumors just rumors that perhaps the Burmese authorities are trying to install some kind of great Chinese style Internet firewall.

But I think it's hard to put the flesh on those on Now the presence of these troops people are out protesting today.

There they're trying to put up barricades there, standing in front of government buildings, trying to persuade civil servants to join this civil disobedience movement.

But the troops are out there also dismantling some barricades blocking them In some areas, you know, people know what's coming.

Eventually, if people mobilize as they did last week and you've got that many soldiers from these units on the streets, everyone knows the risk off.

Well, I'm joined now by ALC Toker from the London based Internet monitoring firm Net Blocks Thank you so much for joining us here on BBC World.

Let me ask you first of all, what more do we know about these Internet blackouts?

The Internet blackouts become, uh, planning characteristic off protests in Myanmar since the 2 15 days ago.

Andi, we're seeing that they are escalating in intensity on frequency.

There was the blackout that we tracked, uh, this morning between 1 a.m. on nine AM local time.

So that's eight hours during which the public weren't able to communicate with each other or with the outside world.

Often this really has been turning into a form of information warfare.

They were terrified before about being a happening.

People know what's going on, and they fear the worst.

And it has the effect of keeping people indoors are not pushing back against the coup.

Perhaps they should be all they want to be.

On a practical level, how does a country itself cope with an Internet blackout?

Because, you know, Internet is used for so many things for business transactions, for payments, even for government.

Everything comes to a standstill, especially when there's already a transition or there's a political crisis.

Uh, it's gridlock, uh, fear it business from from writing it stops political.

Of course, it's really, uh, puts a spanner in the works on uh, this is meant that also the we got to track what's going on So that support network, their civil society, is heavily impacted.

Uh, systems aren't functioning, and these are their thes institutions that should be present to support society during these times.

 Okay, Al Toker, it's been good to talk to you. 