Gemunu Amarasinghe

Visual journalist for Radio Free Asia. Former AP Ptg transiting via Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal & Sri Lanka. Believes in Ceylon tea, compassion and social justice.

[Gemunu Amarasinghe @Gemunua]

#StudentProtesters try to break a police human-chain blocking them from a protest march in Letpadan #Myanmar

[Gemunu Amarasinghe @Gemunua]

@raulgaab Thank you maestro, bear_@raulgaab

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

@huenlam_ @snyd24 @Gemunua She arrived in the U.S. in July 2021, but trauma followed her here. Unable to work without an employment permit, she kept to herself mostly in an apartment in the Washington suburbs.

https://t.co/ffM6k0FVyI

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Meet Huen Lam (@huenlam_), a Hong Kong exile living in Washington, D.C.⁣
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Lam is among many Hong Kongers who have fled their homeland in the last five years, after the summer of protests in 2019.⁣⁣
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Story by @snyd24, @Gemunua and Amelia Loi.

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

Grabbed a copy of @nytimes yesterday to see #AppleDaily printed on papers again. It's been 3yrs Hongkongers have lost the only newspaper that stood for the values of democracy & free press. The world cannot forget #AppleDaily, #JimmyLai & all media workers in #HongKong.

[Hong Kong Democracy Council @hkdc_us]

Profiles of four #HongKong exiles now living in Washington, DC five years on from the mass protests of 2019: @frances_hui, @LeungBaggio, Amity Chan & HKDC’s @huenlam_ , all pressing on in the freedom struggle. https://t.co/9anoyGtg8V

[Frances Hui 許穎婷 @frances_hui]

On the 5th anniversary of the start of #HongKong's pro-democracy movement, @RadioFreeAsia puts out a special feature on me & three other Hongkongers living in Washington DC on how the movement changed our lives & brought us to seek asylum in the US. (1/2)

https://t.co/oq8AIryhwe

[Alan Keenan @akeenan23]

This is such an important case. Great to see @UNSriLanka giving it attention - hopefully foreign missions in #SriLanka and international organisations will follow suit & make it a priority in their support for truth, justice and a full reckoning with the legacy of the war.

[Gemunu Amarasinghe @Gemunua]

As many of his colleagues dead, arrested or in hiding, one of the best Myanmar photojournalists focuses on recording his country’s brutal visual history. https://t.co/ldoSTHFCgd #RFA #Myanmar #NUG #KNDF #FBR

[Hong Kong Watch @hk_watch]

Our Research and Policy Advisors @anoukwear and @megan_khoo have published a @RadioFreeAsia commentary on today's China UPR and the achievements of human rights advocates

"China tried, but failed, to prevent UN scrutiny of its human rights violations"

https://t.co/VG19G2Zl4V

[Victoria Milko @thevmilko]

Lookout world, there's a new capital in town— or at least the start of one. @edededan and I give a preview of what Indonesia's Nusantara new capital city looks like and challenges it's facing. @AP_Climate

https://t.co/QMuvnGwfj6

[Gemunu Amarasinghe @Gemunua]

Sunday morning visual meditation

[Isabelle Baldwin 🌎🎞 @BelleNoelPhoto]

Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread):

[Gemunu Amarasinghe @Gemunua]

@Coalporter Or May be Merry Chrispmas ;)

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

A rare protest in Lhasa against a harsh Covid-19 lockdown. Sources told RFA that Tibetan protesters warned Chinese officials against “setting off a fire” if Covid restrictions are not lifted.

[Frances Harrison @francesharris0n]

An amazing collection of #srilanka 2009 war photographs taken by Amarathaas - mulliviakkal survivor & being launched today in London. Can bookshops in #lka sell this?

[自由亚洲电台 @RFA_Chinese]

【胡锦涛"被架离场"逐格看】
【习近平、李克强、栗战书等人反应可堪回味】
外媒在公开拍摄阶段，捕捉了主席台上的众生相:
习近平冷淡对待;
李克强目瞪口呆;
栗战书抹汗;
王沪宁控制场面。

[Tim Sullivan @ByTimSullivan]

Employee mental health? More than a century ago, a manufacturing millionaire believed in it deeply, and spent widely to promote it among his thousands of workers in upstate New York. He also hated unions. A great piece from @RadioDiaries https://t.co/HJGLlCSZKn

[Margie Mason @MargieMasonAP]

⁦Ever heard of convict leasing? It was a new type of slavery where private companies made fortunes off mostly Black prisoners. @robinmcdowell⁩ and I explore this dark history. Thanks ⁦@cynrod⁩, ⁦@mdmontgomery⁩ and many @reveal folks!! https://t.co/xZ2zM1UK3b

[Victoria Milko @thevmilko]

Called the vitamins of the modern world, rare earths reach into the lives of almost everyone on the planet. Their cost is environmental destruction, theft of land and the funneling of money to a brutal militia w/links to Myanmar’s military. Our latest:

https://t.co/f3axnOJkEh

[Ananda Galappatti @agalappatti]

Just Released: This (<2 hour) online course on Basic Psychosocial Support (in English, Sinhala & Tamil) may be useful for people trying to support each other in the #SriLankaCrisis.

https://t.co/Ip0xDrTwYF
https://t.co/bPXDvHgeZY
https://t.co/nBIZSmT7rP

@mhpss @Asia_Foundation

[Adam Schreck @adamschreck]

Who are the two men at the heart of Sri Lanka’s political crisis? @AP’s ⁦@KrutikaPathi⁩ has profiles on both. https://t.co/nekq5M7Wjt