🖊️ 📷 🎞️ 🐱🐔 Certified overthinker. Advocate of early retirement. (She/ Her). Previously @Myanmar_Now_Eng @Irrawaddynews
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As mourners queued in London for the queen’s funeral, many in Myanmar were left to grieve the loss of more innocents in the country’s long war against military oppression.#Myanmar #MyanmarCoup
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Myanmar junta hands one-year prison sentence to former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and her Burmese husband Htein Lin. #VickyBowman
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“If I had a brother who was a soldier, I would kill him and gouge his eyes out.”
FEATURE | In Myanmar’s heartland, hatred of the military deepens after a village’s destruction
The devastating attack on Yin Paung Taing in Sagaing Region has left a permanent scar on those who lived through it
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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“I keep seeing the same scene over and over again: soldiers kicking the door open, rushing in, and torturing me in my own home. I sometimes find myself wondering how many blows I would be able to take,” says lawyer Mei Aye.
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The mothers didn't know it was their last meeting. The families were denied a chance to say goodbye, to see their loved ones' bodies, to hold funerals for them, and now.. to even mourn in peace. Pro-military thugs attacked their parents' houses yesterday.
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A nation ruled by murderers. There's no other way to describe a regime that uses snipers to shoot protesters in the head and airstrikes and ground attacks to wipe out entire villages; that tortures prisoners to death and kills at will as it rampages through resistance strongholds
Editorial: This is a regime willing to spill any amount of blood to stay in power.
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For generations, Myanmar’s military has used the presence of real or imagined threats to present itself as a stabilising influence. The creation of a group called Thwe Thout, meaning “blood-sworn" comrades, is the same tactic. But there are other intentions. More here:
Recent murder spree revives fears of return of old junta tactics
Like previous regimes, the one now in power appears to be using thugs to instil terror in its critics and sow chaos in Myanmar’s cities
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021 by @accessnow
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NEW: Our annual #KeepItOn report launches today! 🌍
The report — which covers government-imposed #InternetShutdowns in 2021 — highlights the rise of digital authoritarianism and censorship globally.
Key findings below ⬇️
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Those in Yangon vs those who had left Yangon… separated by the military coup. Hoping for a reunion with the friends and the city when MAL and his followers are gone.
"Memories flash in my mind as I hum along to the music and stare at the empty tables. I think of my friends who used to come here. I miss them and wonder when I will see them again."
A journalist in Yangon reminisces.
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Okay, I’m back on Twitter because I want to share this video so badly. You nailed it Ma @meemalee !!
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If you think the coup is justified or people will have a normal life again after some time, think about this 23-year-old mother and other parents who lost their child. #TheCoupKillsKids
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People across the country wish Min Aung Hlaing ‘a speedy death starting from [his] birthday’
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The company said it is ‘evaluating various options’ as the situation in Myanmar shows ‘limited prospects of improvement’
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Danny never should have been arrested, and we call for his immediate release. We are looking forward to Danny being granted his freedom so he can be reunited with his family members and loved ones. #BringDannyHome
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Oh for god's sake!
A March 27 complaint letter from the CID to the Pabedan Township police station requested the station chief to open a criminal case against the “responsible editors” of Myanmar Now under section 505-A of the Penal Code.
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Op-ed by Ma Thin @thinink about the surveillance tech Myanmar junta has access to. A must read.
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