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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Mehdi used to have a show on Al-Jazeera where he confronted representatives of authoritarian regimes the world over with their human rights abuses. Now he counts he number of tweets one American commentator dedicated to another commentator and triumphs it around as 'good journalism' It's not even bad journalism, it isn't even journalism at all.
Hi Matthew, all of our facts are true, I wouldn’t trust Musk’s community notes. For a start they’ve got the starting date wrong, it was August 26th, and then they’ve included your Rogers tweets from the day of taping which we obviously couldn’t include. So I was right. Also, tweet numbers aside, the wider point still stands, that you clearly went against your own advice and pledge, as you conceded on the day. And please don’t get mad at us because we do research. It’s called good journalism.
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Hope it was worth the investment for Vucic to fly in this entire Culture Wars circus.
We love and enjoy bacon here. Serbia stays Christian, pure and free. Normality feels cool. No child marriages. 🇷🇸
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"Voor een toerist is het best lastig om dat te weten. Er staat ook geen bord met 'Dit is een illegale nederzetting" Echt elke idioot die daar loopt kan het verschil zien tussen een luxe Israelische villawijk, en een Palestijns boerendorp. Dat weet hij ook natuurlijk dondersgoed
Victor Vlam koopt een Pikachu uit een illegale nederzetting tijdens het propagandandistische CIDI schooluitje en is zo blij als een kind. Kijk hem eens stoer zijn. Later wil ik net zo stoer zijn als Victor Vlam. En ze nemen die Pikachu misschien niet in omdat het uit een illegale nederzetting komt. Maar waarschinnlijk wel omdat het een gedrocht van een rip-off, fake-ass Chernobyl Pikachu is. Wat een gedrocht. The Pokémon Company is niet blij met dit soort TEMU troep.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters marching in the state of Monagas, demanding early presidential elections.
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Thomas van Linge retweeted
“Así va la mesa de negociación en Venezuela”. Visto hoy en las protestas.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: many people are rallying for early elections in Caracas in what seems to be the largest anti-regime protest in the country since the capture of Maduro and his replacement by Delcy Rodriguez.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: rally in support of early elections and Maria Corina Machado in the state of Cojedes.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: rally in Barinas calling for presidential elections to be held in 2027.
Venezuela 🇻🇪: people are gathering all over th country today in what are expected to be the largest protests since the US capture of Maduro. Protesters demand a date for the presidential elections as well as the return of Maria Corina Machado. This protest was in Tachira state.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: people are gathering all over th country today in what are expected to be the largest protests since the US capture of Maduro. Protesters demand a date for the presidential elections as well as the return of Maria Corina Machado. This protest was in Tachira state.
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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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