ONE YEAR LATER we looked at sanctions track record of govs👇🏽 Which democracies have done the least? Australia 🇳🇿 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷
Biz from those countries & in some cases govs are implicated in ongoing business w/ terrorist #Myanmar junta. Impose sanctions now! https://t.co/sE0r0rdCeL
Billionaires added $5 trillion to their fortunes during the pandemic, according to Oxfam, exacerbating economic inequality as the pandemic pushed millions of people around the world into poverty
https://t.co/gMEe8SOAQj
FDA amends emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to allow some people with compromised immune systems to get a third dose. https://t.co/AdcQPwCLs6
If you calculate 10$ for two doses, for 55m people: $550m
- Tatmadaw buys 20 MiG-29 jets from Russia in 2009: $570m
- Tatmadaw buys 6 Su-30 jets from Russia in 2018: $204m
- Tatmadaw budget 2019: $2.2 billion
Sure, buying vacs will make MM go broke...
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In just 58,848 days — on Sept. 24, 2182 — NASA scientists say an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building has a slight chance of hitting Earth. https://t.co/sXjeP088DA
On what grounds @Facebook is taking these actions? Ko @mrattkthu’s interview with CDM captain was also removed from Facebook.
Facebook needs to explain why they let SAC stay on Facebook while removing pro-democracy contents. EXPLAIN!
@AOC@RepAOC @fbnewsroom @FacebookWatch
According to data received over 192 days, from FEB 1 2021 to AUG 11 2021 there have been a total of 1002 civilian casualties due to the Military Junta’s Use of Excessive Force.
#Data4Democracy#TheInsights#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
New @hrw video tracks persecution & abuse suffered by Burmese journalists fighting to report on what's really happening in #Myanmar under the SAC military regime. At least 98 journalists arrested, 46 still in detention. #SaveMyanmar#Burma@asiareports1
https://t.co/JdhgZdtA4x
#Myanmar: the #UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC, facing contested claims to representation of the country (between the junta and the @NUGMyanmar) decides to postpone Myanmar's Universal Periodic Review until UN General Assembly decides which government is legitimate. @CrphMyanmar
Call to suspend arms sales to the Myanmar military is, trust me, "the least thing" you do to stop horrific killings inside country by brutal Military. ⚠️
Nothing can justify the terrors of Military committing to Karens, Kachins, Rohingyas & latest to Karenni ppl. Period.
Thousands of residents in Hpakant joined together to protest against military dictatorship even though there were inhumane killings and abductions by Junta days ago. #May6Coup#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar