telephone and internet were restored Wednesday night in Syria after a break of a little less than a day isolated from the rest of the world the country plunged into a bloody civil war, residents reported.
communications networks are critical for opponents of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to leave the country wanting pictures and information about the conflict in part forgotten by the international opinion.
activists antiAssad the internet failure was a deliberate action to facilitate military operations from the Damascus regime.
According to data from Google Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc. AKAM.O> and Renesys, the internet works again in both directions from 14:00 GMT Wednesday after a crash that began the day just before 19:00 GMT.
“Back to the status quo. Seems that the situation is the same as before the internet cut,” said Jim Cowie, chief technology officer at Renesys, a U.S. company that monitors Internet traffic in world.
For his part, the Director General of Communications in Syria, Bakr Bakr, quoted by the official news agency SANA, blamed the breakdown of internet communication between provinces to a problem faced by a fiber optic cable.
But the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH, an NGO close to the opposition based in England and has an extensive network of informants in the field) said, on the basis of sources military, that the cut was due to an operation by security forces.
loyalist forces often closed access to telephone and internet in cities or neighborhoods during major military operations. Opponents accuse the supporters of Bashar al-Assad to do the same in an attempt to conceal the killings.
More recently, the papers were apparently interrupted in the coastal cities of Banias and Baida at, say opponents of large-scale killings of civilians, including children.
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