Aung Myo Thein

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#ProudRohingya! 🇲🇲

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

At times, we condemn good people because we disagree with them over a few issues. We refuse to see the good they’re doing. Disagreements do not automatically make a person extreme, bad or evil. Learn to distinguish between the one who respectfully disagrees & the one who is evil!

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.

Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.

[Tun Khin @tunkhin80]

At #HRC61 we raised alarm over escalating abuses against #Rohingya in #RakhineState. The #MyanmarMilitary and #ArakanArmy are forcing Rohingya into recruitment, carrying out near-daily arrests, and committing sexual violence against women.

A disturbing pattern of sexual and gender-based violence has emerged alongside forced recruitment. Women detained by Arakan Army in villages such as Ywar Nyo Taung and NgarSar Kyu have reportedly been raped, physically abused, and extorted for ransom. Fear of retaliation prevents many from speaking out, reinforcing a climate of impunity.

Ongoing justice efforts at international courts are critical, but urgent accountability for both the Myanmar military and Arakan Army is needed.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

NBC asks if Russia and China are actively helping Iran in the war.

Iran's Araghchi responds "They have always helped us."

NBC: "Does that mean yes?"

Araghchi: "I am not going to give details in the middle of a war."

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

@PahlaviReza Shame on yoooooo 😡

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

You have to defend yet another massive U-turn from your boss and your boss is Donald Trump and you decide to go with ‘other presidents were the dumb ones’ as your defense. Got it.

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

Insha Allah

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

“That’s the way it is,” says draft dodging president who called dead soldiers ‘suckers and losers’.

How is the American public ok with this?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump provides an update on Operation Epic Fury:

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: IRAN SHOOTS DOWN a $35 MILLION American MQ-9 'Reaper' drone

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

US-Israel war on Iran: Netanyahu says ‘all indications’ show Khamenei is ‘no longer with us’ – live https://t.co/1IKoOZUvF9

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

Thank you all for voicing your support regarding the tragic death of my Rohingya brother, Nurul Amin Shah Alam. We demand full accountability and justice for his family during this very difficult time.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Absolutely horrifying. This refugee survived genocide and died because of the gross incompetence of federal immigration agents.

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

The US has never had a leader with this level of confidence and aura.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Mamdani while making the case for global migration says, "I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration. The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina."

But that isn’t the end of the story. In Medina, the Muslims went from being a persecuted group to being the persecutors. They built a new political order, attacking Meccan trade, and triggered a cycle of violence.

Let's not forget that Islam for the most part didn't spread through peaceful means through trade and migration but through conquests and forced conversions. Mamdani's own ancestors in India likely converted from being Hindus to Muslims through force.

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

BNP Chairperson @trahmanbnp on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh:

“We will try to work on the issue so that these people can go back to their own land,” he said. “The situation has to be safe for them to go back there. As long as it is not safe, they are very welcome to stay here.”

https://t.co/7tlOZ2kKAv

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

The most surprising thing about the Epstein files is how unsurprising they really are.

The shock is only for those who believed otherwise. The question for all of us is do we continue to function normally now that it’s proven the world is being managed by a bunch of compromised pedophiles caught in the web of an Israeli Mossad agent?

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

A statement from the Bangladesh Government.

"Bangladesh takes serious exception to the recent submissions made by Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which the Rohingya people were referred to as 'Bengalis' to create a narrative of illegal migration and reinforce internal security threats, and thus seek to justify 'clearance operations' as a counter-terrorism operation as well as to divert attention from the atrocity crimes committed on them in the 2016-17 period."

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

The Myanmar military is highly skilled in public psychological warfare. While it continues aerial bombings, killings, and sexual violence across the country, including in Rakhine State, many people who are oppressed by the military are now taking the military’s side in the Gambia v. Myanmar - Rohingya genocide case at the @CIJ_ICJ.

Military propaganda claims that the case is not against the military, but against the country as a whole, and that everyone will suffer if The Gambia wins. As a result, many people now support the military, even though the military continues to kill civilians across the country.

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

Although the Rohingya had long been dehumanized in an open-air prison in Myanmar, the world became widely aware of this for the first time in Feb. 2019, when Ye Myint Aung, Myanmar’s envoy at the Consulate General in Hong Kong, described the Rohingya people as “ugly as ogres” in a letter sent to the media and foreign officials. AFP reported this headline.

[Ro Nay San Lwin @nslwin]

While the hearing of The Gambia v. Myanmar case are ongoing at the @CIJ_ICJ, some Myanmar media outlets are deliberately avoiding the use of the term “Rohingya.”

Instead, different groups are using alternative terms:

• Pro–military junta media refer to it as “Bengali Genocide.”

• Pro–Arakan Army media refer to it as “Muslim Genocide.”

[Aung Myo Thein @omr_shine]

The world is very cruel; no one helps you unless you have something in return.
~ Omar Shine