@ThomasVLinge

Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Joined January 2013
This thread is only a fraction of what I've seen & what people told me in Sagaing, Myanmar. If any editors would be interested in any stories about Sagaing, the people, fighters, refugees, war crimes, drone units etc, or if anyone know of any editors who might, my DMs are open!
I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵
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Contrary to the Student List's mass festival in Belgrade, Vucic closing rally in Novi Sad was met by a torrential downpour of rain. It couldn't be more symbolic. Serbia 🇷🇸
Da ostane zabeleženo za istoriju.... poslednji SNS skup/šetnja u #Srbija je bila 22.oktobra 2026 oko 21h u #novisad po provali oblaka..dok su im Novosađani sa prozora zviždali i lupali u šepre, puštali pesmu lijte kise, hladne vode, vučić ode..vučić ode.. kraj jedne ere!
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Thomas van Linge retweeted
In some ways, @Lana_Nusseibeh is a compelling candidate for UN Secretary-General. She's a woman from a moderate Gulf country and has a record of effective diplomacy -- but unfortunately she has proven her effectiveness by backing the UAE's role in arming the RSF militia as it has engaged in mass murder and mass rape in Sudan, in a rampage that both the Biden and Trump administrations have called genocide. So, sure, an effective diplomat is wonderful -- but not if the effectiveness is divorced from values the UN is meant to promote. No doubt she thought she was simply supporting the policies her country's leaders set. But hundreds of thousands have died in Sudan, as best we can tell, and she has helped lead a UAE diplomatic effort that has lied about it, covered it up and persisted in it even as the slaughter continues. Shouldn't that be disqualifying?
I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve. My vision: lananusseibeh.org
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Serbia 🇷🇸: the capital Belgrade tonight. Elections are just three days away.
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The election rally in Čačak two weeks ago when Three Kisses for Luck arguable became the anthem of Serbia's Student List.
Fun fact: the song that they're singing here; 'Three Kisses for Luck' is a Serbian folks song which has become the anthem of the opposition as 3 is the number of the Student List on the election ballet. Serbia 🇷🇸
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Not just popular with the students btw. Serbia 🇷🇸
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Also very popular in Novi Pazar, Serbia's most prominent Muslim-majority city. 🥉🇷🇸
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Serbia 🇷🇸: festive atmosphere at the Student List’s closing rally in Belgrade. Thousands of people dancing and gathering in anticipation of Sunday’s election.
Serbia 🇷🇸: The capital of Belgrade tonight. People as far as the eye can see. The Student List is ready to end 12 years of rule by Aleksandar Vucic and the SNS.
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Fun fact: the song that they're singing here; 'Three Kisses for Luck' is a Serbian folks song which has become the anthem of the opposition as 3 is the number of the Student List on the election ballet. Serbia 🇷🇸
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a Serbian Muslim couple, reunited after the long student march on Belgrade. Serbia 🇷🇸
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Serbia 🇷🇸: The capital of Belgrade tonight. People as far as the eye can see. The Student List is ready to end 12 years of rule by Aleksandar Vucic and the SNS.
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Serbia 🇷🇸: Belgrade is already packed and more people are flooding in.
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to be fair tho, I just counted and since August 30th Mehdi tweeted about Hasan Piker 35 times and about Rogers around 16 times.
Me: "Do you know how many times you've tweeted about Piker since you wrote that tweet [about not tweeting about him] on August 30th?" @mattyglesias: "Probably more than I intended to." Me: "8 times.... you tweeted about Mike Rogers 6 times. So you're tweeting about the streamer you didn't want to talk about more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat." Yglesias: "Yeah, that's fair." Me: "Why?" Yglesias: "What do you want me to say? You got me." From my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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Serbia 🇷🇸: Meanwhile Vucic' SNS holds its own final election rally on the other side of Belgrade. When comparing this crowd to those of the Student List, do you notice anything?
Serbia 🇷🇸: It's the 22nd of October and thousands of people are already gathering at several spots around the capital Belgrade for what is to be the final mass election rally of the Student List ahead of Sunday's elections.
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Serbia 🇷🇸: It's the 22nd of October and thousands of people are already gathering at several spots around the capital Belgrade for what is to be the final mass election rally of the Student List ahead of Sunday's elections.
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Unsurprising that the guy who left behind such a mess in Syria pays little mind to the people of Sudan and the Horn of Africa either.
How did UAE become the largest global provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to UN data? Because of Lana Nussaibeh—a diplomat who knows everyone and works with them to GSD. She would be an inspired choice for this impossible job.
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