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Hideo Watanabe of Japan-Myanmar Association who wrote in @Diplomat_APAC professing Japan to be "bridge" between #Myanmar junta & US has long backed Myanmar's huge development projects incl. Thilawa w/ long track record of working closely w/ junta, incl MAH ow.ly/QLgo50EVqf4
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PR in Burmese: by 6 signatories of #CivilDisobedienceMOvement nomination to Nobel Peace Prize. Says its “timely candidate” for the prize. “…an acknowledgement of all the ppl of the country of Myanmar who are fighting for their right to live peacefully in a democratic country"👇🏽 twitter.com/rinfujimatsu/s…
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‼️⚠️#Myanmar military junta uses dead bodies as "tools of terror" @AP & @hrcberkeley investigates👇🏼Bodies snatched & dragged thrown into vehicles to unknown places, secret cremations, mutilated bodies returned to families, torture - this is state of terror ow.ly/6C7K50EVseK
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As @UN_HRC holds a special session on #Myanmar, security forces turn violent as they shoot into crowd of peaceful protesters. Several have been shot. The world must act to stop further violence by military. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #CivilDisobedienceMovement #myanmarmilitarycoup
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Kitazumi-San just released. Seems police said didn’t know he was press, but he was wearing press helmet so he doesn’t accept their explanation. His camera taken, not sure if data lost he told reporters outside saunchaung police station. 700+ still detained & must be released!
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488 CSOs call on #UN & int. community to ensure that provision of humanitarian aid is not weaponized by #Myanmar junta in their campaign of terror. Calls for:
⭕️provision of aid/cross-border aid through local orgs
⭕️Countries to protect #RefugeeRights
#WorldRefugeeDay
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#Bike4Myanmar Bike For Democracy protest in #Indonesia in solidarity w/ ppl of #Myanmar ✊ Protest in front of #ASEAN building during special summit dispersed by the police, 6 protesters detained. 2 are legal assistants from LBH Jakarta😒 @Myanmar_Now_Eng: facebook.com/myanmarnownews…
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The military hauling lines of peaceful protesters away in several trucks in Tamwe #Yangon #Myanmar. violent crackdowns by brutal military cont. as they gun ppl down in the streets
#Mar3Coup #WhatsHapppeningInMyanmar #Myanmarcoup
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Starting soon @UN_HRC Special Session on #Myanmar: Deputy High commissioner & @RapporteurUn to speak 10am Geneva/3.30pm YGN. Watch 👉🏽 webtv.un.org/live/ 70+ CSOs urged HRC to take immediate action to protect peaceful protesters 👇🏽#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #myanmarmilitarycoup
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Those 3,000 ppl who have fled the nighttime air strikes, the brutal & indiscriminate attacks by the #Myanmar military in #Karen State, without safety, will once again face the terror of the military 😰 #Myanmarcoup #WhatsHappeningInMaynmar twitter.com/OoWen20385299/…
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Youth will not be scared into silence - they fight back in creative ways 👏🏼👊🏼Hakha youth replaced pictures of protest leaders “wanted” by military as heroes & police officers ordering killings as int. fugitive wanted for #CrimeAgainstHumanity. Reward $1 😂ow.ly/dEzV30rAUjA
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Unprecedented humanitarian intervention is needed to save lives in #Myanmar but seems no urgency around massive devastation being wrought by the military coup, economic crisis & Covid catastrophe says @marypcallahan “If not now, when? If not you, who?” bit.ly/36JAZBT
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Police violently crackdown on peaceful protesters in front of Mawlamyine University during demonstration against #militarycoup. Shots fired towards end of clip. They have arrested at least 4 students. Clip from @RFABurmese #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar #Myanmarprotests
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Kyauktalone IDP camp in Rakhine State. Kaman Muslim IDPs have been forced to live in this low lying floodplain since 2012. Ppl of #Myanmar are drowning in what seems endless & ruthless challenges of coup, COVID, conflict & now flooding hitting marginalized & vulnerable hardest 😔
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"If ASEAN community is giving space to murder & terrorist, how can ASEAN be a good neighbor". says @sweetysandar
#MilkTeaAlliance open letter to UN, ASEAN & member states: docs.google.com/document/d/1Is…
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10,000+ villagers from Pekon Township, #Shan State flee fighting as #Myanmar miltiary junta shells villages. Fighting has been relentless for over a week, taking place every day according to local reports @bnionline1. 70 yr old women killed in conflict: bit.ly/2YxM7BB
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What a brilliant performance 👏Japanese media in praise & so moved over actions of Ambassador to #Myanmar for speaking to protesters in Burmese. This is the same ambassador that denies #Rohingya their identity & gov that repeatedly voted in abstention at the @UN_HRC on #Myanmar. twitter.com/KosukeGoto2013…
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Seeing reports of approx 30 killed in Halingthayar as @SpecialCouncil raises alarm at growing likelihood of major lethal crackdown against protesters. Military declares manufacturing heart of the country Hlainthayar & also Shwe Pyi Thar under martial law #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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“Insistence on working through the #Myanmar military junta – justified by a fetishised notion of humanitarian neutrality – obscures the undeniably political nature of humanitarian aid”
Denial of local agency represents cont. colonisation of aid practices: bit.ly/3rDWXQF
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According to @aapp_burma, 74 ppl now confirmed killed on the deadly 14 March. This incl. youth 👉🏼 3ppl under-18s, incl. 15 yr-old girl. In total since 1 Feb, 183 ppl have been killed by #Myanmar military & security forces: aappb.org/?p=13689 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Consult w/ @NUGMyanmar & ethnic health orgs in provision of aid says @aung_myo_minn.“People first, transparency & equal balance” are fundamental principles. Recognition & legitimacy must not be given to military. Assistance must go directly to ppl & not the pocket of military!
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Amid reports of police once again firing into peaceful protesters in #Mandalay, EAOs who signed NCA suspends negotiation w/ Military, fully supports #CivilDisobedienceMovement calls for release of detainees & condemns police crackdown on peaceful protesters #myanmarmilitarycoup
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Frightening scenes on the streets of #Yangon & Myeik as snipers seen prepared to gun down peaceful protesters. 📸 from social media👇🏽#Myanmar #Myanmarcoup #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #Mar2Coup #RejectMyanmarMilitaryCoup
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177 #Myanmar CSOs call on #UN Sec Council for urgent enhanced monitoring & intervention amid increasing violence & arbitrary arrests by security forces. @PVamplify & ethnic CSO reps on #CivilDisobedienceMovement & coup eng 👉🏽 ow.ly/uQiq30rwQ3v Bur 👉🏽 ow.ly/fOBw30rwQ3K
Born in Japan, Advocacy Director @PVamplify, formerly @burmapartners. Prior @peace_boat staff traveled over 80 countries. 長野出身。NGOスタッフ／ミャンマー。地球4周80ヶ国超。