Tin Htet Paing

🖊️ 📷 🎞️ 🐱🐔 Certified overthinker. Advocate of early retirement. (She/ Her). Previously @Myanmar_Now_Eng @Irrawaddynews

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

Lens of defiance: The Myanmar film industry’s fight to survive in a new era of censorship

A new generation of filmmakers remains committed to resisting the regime’s efforts to control their creative vision
#MyanmarCinema
https://t.co/39eqFJzxZY

[Edith Mirante @EdithMirante]

1. This (recent) History Thread is about the progress of Chin State resistance to Myanmar (Burma) coup regime, Feb. 2021 to Jan. 2023. Relates to my new Project Maje report: “Under the Hornbill Flag” https://t.co/p9JxoTHyNW #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInChinState 🌄

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

We’re looking for a copy editor for our English Edition. Please help us spread the word! [Hey, if you see spelling/grammar errors or or typos in my tweets, or even in our stories, and can’t hold the urge to correct those,I bet you are a great candidate!]

https://t.co/dbw86DRW8y

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

As mourners queued in London for the queen’s funeral, many in Myanmar were left to grieve the loss of more innocents in the country’s long war against military oppression.#Myanmar #MyanmarCoup

https://t.co/axwzNZw3Yi

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

Myanmar junta hands one-year prison sentence to former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and her Burmese husband Htein Lin. #VickyBowman
https://t.co/p6Of5evrt4

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

“If I had a brother who was a soldier, I would kill him and gouge his eyes out.”

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

FEATURE | In Myanmar’s heartland, hatred of the military deepens after a village’s destruction

The devastating attack on Yin Paung Taing in Sagaing Region has left a permanent scar on those who lived through it
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/1NHugrFue0

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

“I keep seeing the same scene over and over again: soldiers kicking the door open, rushing in, and torturing me in my own home. I sometimes find myself wondering how many blows I would be able to take,” says lawyer Mei Aye.
https://t.co/7MqaaRKQei

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

The mothers didn't know it was their last meeting. The families were denied a chance to say goodbye, to see their loved ones' bodies, to hold funerals for them, and now.. to even mourn in peace. Pro-military thugs attacked their parents' houses yesterday.
https://t.co/pSDSZRjIxH

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

A nation ruled by murderers. There's no other way to describe a regime that uses snipers to shoot protesters in the head and airstrikes and ground attacks to wipe out entire villages; that tortures prisoners to death and kills at will as it rampages through resistance strongholds

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

Editorial: This is a regime willing to spill any amount of blood to stay in power.

https://t.co/ayjdAd5P0Y

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

FEATURE | A tale of two defections

Two defectors who entered the military in their teens recall what it took for them to finally break its hold on their lives

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/kxT4WosvRO

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

From investigating illegal fishing in the South China Sea to revealing the brutal repression of people in Myanmar, this year's winning stories of the @sopasia Awards showcases superb journalism. https://t.co/KlHcbfFIpn @edwardwhitenz @Myanmar_Now_Eng @rkessl

[The Society of Publishers in Asia @sopasia]

🏆 Congratulations @Myanmar_Now_Eng for winning the Award for Excellence in Regional Human Rights Reporting. Superb journalism on telling individual tales of heroism & tragedy in the face of the military takeover of Myanmar. #SOPAwards2022

📰 https://t.co/oBvXLEcGJY

[Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen]

The daughter of one of the reporters at the Uvalde paper was killed in the massacre. She asked her editor if she could writer her daughter's obituary.

“She said, ‘Can I have two pictures?’ And I said, ‘You can have a full page.’ ”

https://t.co/3LC2skjmMH

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

For generations, Myanmar’s military has used the presence of real or imagined threats to present itself as a stabilising influence. The creation of a group called Thwe Thout, meaning “blood-sworn" comrades, is the same tactic. But there are other intentions. More here:

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

Recent murder spree revives fears of return of old junta tactics

Like previous regimes, the one now in power appears to be using thugs to instil terror in its critics and sow chaos in Myanmar’s cities
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/kU1K8ywGY6

[The Society of Publishers in Asia @sopasia]

#ICYMI: Finalists for the #SOPAwards2022 have been revealed! Entries for the nominations showed a strong commitment to journalistic experience, underpinned by rigorous and fearless reporting.

Congratulations to those who made it!
🔍 Read More: https://t.co/EgbFGFexWE

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021 by @accessnow
#MyanmarCoup #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/HUeTKD3rv7

[Access Now @accessnow]

NEW: Our annual #KeepItOn report launches today! 🌍

The report — which covers government-imposed #InternetShutdowns in 2021 — highlights the rise of digital authoritarianism and censorship globally.

Key findings below ⬇️
https://t.co/kLz2h60M0o #LetTheNetWork

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

Those in Yangon vs those who had left Yangon… separated by the military coup. Hoping for a reunion with the friends and the city when MAL and his followers are gone.

[Kite Tales Myanmar @kitetalesMM]

"Memories flash in my mind as I hum along to the music and stare at the empty tables. I think of my friends who used to come here. I miss them and wonder when I will see them again."

A journalist in Yangon reminisces.

https://t.co/y6tCRGfvif

#WhatshappeninginMyanmar

[Myanmar Now @Myanmar_Now_Eng]

The newspaper, once regarded as one of the best in Myanmar, went through years of turmoil after the tycoon took full ownership in 2015
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/ybw7TK1Xyw

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

Okay, I’m back on Twitter because I want to share this video so badly. You nailed it Ma @meemalee !!

[Tin Htet Paing @thpaing]

@EdithMirante A great thread!!