In 2012 I began to cover the tragedy of the #Rohingya in #Burma, and for the next years I became obsessed with trying to understand it. I'm not quite sure if I've succeded, but the result of those efforts is this book, published today by @VersoBooks https://t.co/yTF7rH5VtD
@gerclouds Curiosamente, hay quién dice que Trump es hipócrita a la inversa: un tipo relativamente amable en persona que hace el papel de hijo de puta en público. https://t.co/6Th1OZI0uv
Pressure from China has forced ethnic armies in Shan State to stop supplying arms to resistance groups in Myanmar’s central Dry Zone, leading to scarcity of guns and ammunition among PDFs struggling to hold ground against the military.
Read story here: https://t.co/WztQtFbnCT
Muere la reina Sirikit de Tailandia. Ésta es la necrológica que escribí en 2019, cuando trabajaba en la delegación de EFE en Bangkok, y que ha estado seis años guardada en la "nevera".
https://t.co/9ZEVk2VsGO
Nobel Peace Prize for the far-right this year. No two ways about it. / Premio Nobel de la Paz para la extrema derecha este año. No tiene vuelta de hoja.
🇻🇪💪🏻 Full speech of @MariaCorinaYA for the #MakeEuropeGreatAgain Summit in Madrid.
«I want to thank once again the work of the Patriots for Europe Group in the European Parliament, which has always been at the forefront of the fight for the freedom of the Venezuelan people».
Conflict and a transportation blockade by the junta have led to widespread hunger in Rakhine State, leading residents to take desperate measures, from selling their own blood to killing themselves.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Read here: https://t.co/hriWbchVXo
@DerekTonkinUK@assesskaiser1 The US representative did use the word "genocide" (quite hypocritically, IMHO, as I don't think you can argue the "clearance operations" in 2017 are genocide and what Israel is doing in Gaza isn't, but that'd another matter) https://t.co/Cf8LbghtmZ
OPINION | The regime is taking advantage of an international order in decline to claim a legitimacy it doesn’t deserve – with authoritarian states in the Global South increasingly opening their doors to Min Aung Hlaing, argues David Mathieson.
Read here: https://t.co/Se6szHcl0W
@EdgarStraehle Intuyo que hay muchos ejemplos como ese en todo el mundo. Claro que es mucho más difícil studiar lo que no fue que lo que fue, pero podría ser interestante estudiar diferentes casos como este.
@EdgarStraehle El norte de Tailandia, donde yo vivo. El reino de Lanna fue independiente por siglos, tenía su propio dialecto y rasgos culturales únicos, de hecho no fue parte de Siam hasta finales del XIX. Pese a su historia y rasgos culturales distintivos, no existe un "nacionalismo lanna".
The March 28 earthquake in central Myanmar killed hundreds of Muslims and damaged many mosques, and survivors are forced to pray in makeshift shelters while waiting for permits to rebuild their houses of worship.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Read here: https://t.co/gTeK2TZfVP
As Rakhine – one of Myanmar’s poorest states – comes under nearly complete control by the Arakan Army, residents are getting squeezed from all sides by the region’s worsening economic crisis.
Read here: https://t.co/TVm4c8t89v
A deadly turf war between Chin resistance armies has raged despite Indian attempts to mediate, and comes as broader efforts to bridge Chin divides are stagnating.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Read here: https://t.co/b8mCroJUHK
The AA’s offensives into neighbouring regions together with its resistance allies have brought Myanmar’s civil war to new corners of the country – and put the group within striking distance of key munitions factories.
Read here: https://t.co/exXYU0INzd
EDITORIAL | ASEAN is sliding into irrelevance on Myanmar
The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
Read here: https://t.co/XSujvEp3Ft