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1,300+ ppl killed since Feb for protesting the brutal terrorist #Myanmar junta. The # of deaths keep rising but ppl cont to resist & demonstrate despite the extreme risks they have to take to make their voices heard! & yet #UN cont. to fail ppl of Myanmar
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In 2020 only 1 MP was detained across SE Asia.
W/ attempted coup in #Myanmar, 91 MPs have been detained in 2021. Despite threats MPs have bravely vowed to cont. carryout their mandates. Int. community & ASEAN must NOT recognize military junta! bit.ly/3ogBKw0 @ASEANMP 👇🏼
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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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How can donors, UN, int humanitarian orgs support ppl of Myanmar as humanitarian crisis deepens? Check out "Nowhere to Run" by 10 local #Myanmar CSOs released today. Aid must be sensitive to human rights protection & provided through cross-border channels! bit.ly/3kTa39C
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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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Marking a grim # of 1,000 ppl killed by #Myanmar junta since coup in Feb. according to @aapp_burma but like Ko Tate said, number is likely far higher. Many have been killed in ethnic areas due to fierce air strikes & artillery shelling, many due to COVID: reut.rs/2W2YVi1
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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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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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.@ASEANMP PC, Myanmar doctor on recent humanitarian assistance to Mindat. The most vulnerable, IDPs are displaced in forests. Aid is blocked by junta & UNHCR can only access to junta approved camps. They show "no interest in providing humanitarian assistance to these ppl"
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Put into a ditch & buried, beaten & hit in the head, 17yr old COVID volunteer was tortured for 10 days by #Myanmar junta. According to @DoctorsRights 200+ attacks on health workers & facilities by junta have left at least 17 dead. His story 👉🏽 @Myanmar_Now bit.ly/3eueCoz
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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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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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‼️⚠️#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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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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"Don't think that foreigners can just do as they like here. I can send you to prison anytime" interrogator told Japanese journo recently released from Insein where Danny Fenster is now being held. 70+ journalists have been taken. Immediately release them! ow.ly/Ja1H50EUjt2
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As he was not allowed access to any writing materials, he used very strong dark instant coffee to record information while in prison 📸👇🏼
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Japanese jurno released from #Myanmar prison says prisoners were blindfolded, handcuffed & made to kneel on floor & interrogated in this position. They would be beaten w/ sticks if denying allegations & this would cont for 2-3 days. Also not allowed to sleep or go to the bathroom
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UNODC not only hosted Lt-Gen Than Hlaing, sanctioned by EU, US+ others to their conference, but has also overlooked the violence by junta. This is attributable to its partnership w/ the very police perpetrating violence w/ total impunity👉🏼 @Myanmar_Now_Eng ow.ly/WEZF50EEbuc
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Myanmar swimmer Win Htet Oo gives up his Olympic dream to protest the junta's violence. Until criminal Min Aung Hlaing is removed from power, he doesn't see himself competing under the #Myanmar flag 🇲🇲"We are going to keep struggling until we have freedom one way or another"✊🏼👊🏼
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300+ ppl fled to Thailand due to airstrikes by #Myanmar military that started on 27 April. Many from Ei Htu Hta IDP camp & surrounding areas. Too common for IDPs to be displaced more than once. Airstrikes aiming outside villages where villagers r hiding ow.ly/YsDV30rG8ME
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Fighting between #Myanmar military & Karen National Liberation Army (Brigade 5) took place around 5 a.m Today. KNLA reportedly seized control of one of the military's camps in Mutraw district. “Thaw Lae Hta” is based opposite Thailand's Mae Sam Lap. ow.ly/BNvC50EymOg #Karen
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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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Rape & sexual violence has been used as weapon of war for decades against ethnic ppl by #Myanmar military. This is hallmark of military's tactic in terrorizing ppl, also deployed against women in detention. Read 👉brave account of 17 yrs old in detention: ow.ly/E9jN50EvIP4
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.@NUGMyanmar Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe who served under NLD admits last gov didnt do "very well on human rights issue & neglecting some voices from ethnic areas. So I personally apologize for that...I don't raise voice for our brothers & sister in ethnic areas incl. #Rohingya..."👇
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。