Since Myanmar shut off the internet in two states a year ago, lawyer Oo Twan Hla, who was once able to check online when his cases were scheduled, said he must now travel through a war zone to read a signboard.
An aspiring medic, in a community largely barred from accessing health care, can no longer search the web for remedies to help sick neighbors.
The government-ordered shutdown in two of Myanmar’s poorest states — Rakhine and neighboring Chin — home to about a million people, is a year old on Sunday.