Naypyitaw was a new city, built specifically for the government to move the capital from Yangon to here. Its infrastructure was severely inadequate and was often referred to as the last city to have internet.
However, there were over a hundred thousand people that had witnessed the battle.
Therefore, try as Myanmar might, they couldn't cover up the news. It was not only the Myanmar citizens who had seen what happened but also a few hundred tourists and many journalists.
These tourists and journalists were beyond the control of the government and they could upload the images or videos they captured during the battle to the internet and share them with the world.
Even though the images and footage were grainy, this was the first time that the world had seen Chen Fan in action.
These images first appeared on popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
"OMG, what am I seeing?"
