By DOUG MELLGREN
The Associated Press

This is wonderful news. The evil military dictators in their country may be able to ban journalists, but they’ll never get all the cellphones and computers out of the country. God Bless those who care about their freedom. Anybody here in America “hear” that last sentence?

OSLO, Norway - Cell phones and the Internet are playing a crucial role in telling the world about Myanmar’s pro-democracy protests, with video footage sometimes transmitted one frame at a time. Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday the junta has cut some cell phone service.

On the other side of the world in Oslo, a shoestring radio and television network called the Democratic Voice of Burma has been at the forefront of receiving and broadcasting such cyber dispatches by satellite TV and shortwave radio.

Chief editor Aye Chan Naing said the station, founded in 1992 by exiled Myanmar students, is able to pass on nearly real-time images and information about anti-government protests - unlike in 1988, when a similar uprising was shut down in a bloodbath that left more than 3,000 dead.

On Wednesday, the military opened fire after a month of mostly peaceful demonstrations by tens of thousands led by Buddhist monks, and the government confirmed at least one demonstrator killed and three wounded. Activists reported the death toll was five.

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