Jose M Arraiza

Passionate about land, identity and justice. Hope is resistance.
Follow me at bluesky: @tierrayderechos.bsky.social

[Fundación Patrimonio Natural @patrimonionat]

La Casa del Parque de Montes Obarenes en su sede #Oña #Burgos, acoge la expo fotográfica “Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe”; tras su paso Madrid, Cantabria y Jaén, la muestra documenta más de una década gracias al fotógrafo y cooperante internacional #ChemaArraiza

[Fundación Patrimonio Natural @patrimonionat]

La Casa del Parque de Montes Obarenes en su sede #Oña #Burgos, acoge la expo fotográfica “Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe”; tras su paso Madrid, Cantabria y Jaén, la muestra documenta más de una década gracias al fotógrafo y cooperante internacional #ChemaArraiza

[Fundación Patrimonio Natural @patrimonionat]

Una magnifica exposición con la mirada humana siempre en el objetivo la que puedes visitar en "#Oña acoge 'Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe' del fotoperiodista Txema Arraiza hasta el 1 de septiembre" https://t.co/ru4SCuytHI vía @correodeburgos .

[Fundación Patrimonio Natural @patrimonionat]

"#Oña acoge 'Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe' del fotoperiodista Txema Arraiza hasta el 1 de septiembre" https://t.co/ru4SCuxVSa vía @correodeburgos . Una magnifica exposición con la mirada humana siempre en el objetivo

[Fundación Patrimonio Natural @patrimonionat]

La Casa del Parque de Montes Obarenes en su sede #Oña #Burgos, acoge la expo fotográfica “Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe”; tras su paso Madrid, Cantabria y Jaén, la muestra documenta más de una década gracias al fotógrafo y cooperante internacional #ChemaArraiza

[Ayto. de Navacerrada @aytonavacerrada]

📸 ¿Cómo cambia un país tras un golpe de Estado?
No te pierdas la exposición "Myanmar: La mirada tras el golpe" de @tierrayderechos en #Navacerrada.
🗓 Del 9 al 17 de mayo 📍 Sala de Exposiciones 🎙 Inauguración: Sábado 9, 19h.
Toda la info en: https://t.co/qYwjwokvQa 🌐

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

"Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe" en la Casa de Cultura de Navacerrada, del 9 al 17 de mayo de 2026.

https://t.co/ZrMuLWaQvz

[Insight Myanmar Podcast @InsightMyanmar]

Some stories do more than document a crisis. They stay with you because they ask you to keep looking.

In Myanmar: The Gaze After the Coup, humanitarian worker and photographer Jose M. Arraiza reflects on more than a decade of seeing Myanmar up close, fr… https://t.co/vxaEqv4NS3

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

And so I asked myself: to whom does a gaze belong? To the one who looks, or the one observed? To both? Perhaps photography brings a third look — the perspective of the public. That is yours: a gaze after the coup.

Please don't look away.

https://t.co/hJIOcS5gNb

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

Digital Public Infrastructure needs effective remedies and safeguards from the start.
Right now, the hype around DPI keeps racing ahead without any real reckoning with the harms we already know it can cause for stateless people and other groups. https://t.co/6tfGaLA76K

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

"Building Land-Rooted Federalism: Why Work on Land in Post-Coup Myanmar Matters Now". Donors and agencies should understand the strategic value of land civil society organisations and ethnic land governance for protection and democracy. @SalzburgGlobal
https://t.co/rROERta9Fk

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

@ArantxaTirado https://t.co/4CBewJQDP0

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

@ArantxaTirado Arantxa, normalmente es un placer escucharte, pero cuando defiendes, por ejemplo, que no hay refugiados venezolanos porque en Venezuela no hay represión estás haciendo daño real a las víctimas que te puedan escuchar. Respeto a las víctimas, por favor. https://t.co/2vVXuiqFgj

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

What basic Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) rights principles should guide the reconstruction of Gaza?
https://t.co/J027QvHncE

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

Sin restitución no habrá paz justa.Aunque los últimos acontecimientos dan pocos motivos para el optimismo, a largo plazo no hay otro camino que el de promover la paz con una justicia diseñada en torno a las necesidades de las víctimas y su protección.
https://t.co/VFPwaabAnk

[Jose M Arraiza @tierrayderechos]

Durante los últimos diez años trabajando en Myanmar mi cámara siempre me ha acompañado. "Myanmar: la mirada tras el golpe" es un recorrido por la dramática historia reciente. Expuesta en Casa de Cultura de Majadahonda (Madrid) del 1 al 10 de septiembre.
https://t.co/NBkUXKXwBk

[The Human Rights Foundation of Monland @HURFOM]

Military-appointed local administrative force and conscription enforcement teams are conducting forced registration of local young men for military service across villages in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mawlamyine District, Mon State. Alongside this, families are being compelled to pay arbitrary fees, adding further pressure and fear among already vulnerable communities.

The forced registration campaign is being coordinated by township-level conscription teams working under the General Administration Department (GAD). All males between the ages of 18 and 35 are being listed, with households required to pay between 10,000 and 15,000 MMK, regardless of consent or willingness to serve.

“They had collected names before, but starting again from August 1, they resumed forced registration in our area,” said a 50-year-old local resident. “They went house to house and listed every man between 18 and 35 years old. Then they demanded money from each household—between 10,000 and 15,000 kyat. This has been happening for over a year now. And now, the official conscription summons letters have started arriving.”

Residents report that these operations are being carried out by a combined group of junta soldiers, police, local administrators, members of the pro-military USDP, and conscription team members. The forced registration has been especially active in junta-controlled Mon villages including Khon Wun, Khayon, Kyaikpran Lapang, and Kyun Phaninn.

Once names are collected, families receive official call-up letters summoning them to report to the township General Administration Office. Individuals must appear in person or send a family representative to complete the conscription process. The letters include explicit threats that failure to comply will result in legal action under the junta’s People’s Military Service Law.

Since the junta announced enforcement of the conscription law, it began launching one-week military training programs nationwide starting 1 April 2024. Sources close to the military say that 15 training batches have already been conducted, with plans underway to begin the 16th round.

Under this program, conscripts are subjected to four months of military training, followed by two years of compulsory service. Those with university degrees or technical expertise may be forced to serve up to three years, and in declared “emergencies,” the junta has stated that military service terms may be extended up to five years.

The forced registration, arbitrary monetary demands, and threats of imprisonment have deeply affected local communities, causing widespread fear and distress. Civilians in Mon State—especially parents of young men—are living in constant anxiety under the junta’s coercive conscription tactics.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel is acting systematically and deliberately to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.

The “Our Genocide” report is based on documentation and research by Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis working together out of a shared moral commitment to human rights.

Genocide is the violent and deliberate destruction of a distinct group in whole or in part, or an attempt to destroy it, whether physically, socially or economically. It does not require the mass killing of all members of the group, but rather refers to any act committed as part of an intention to destroy the society and render its continued existence impossible.

Israel is inflicting a system of total destruction in Gaza:

– Mass killing of civilians
– Forced displacement of millions
– Destruction of homes and infrastructure
– Starvation as a weapon
– Bombing of hospitals and clinics
– Erasure of schools, universities, and cultural institutions
– Collapse of every civil system that sustains life

This is not “collateral damage.” It is the deliberate dismantling of a society.

Genocide is not only about what is done – it is about why it is done.
In Gaza, destruction is not limited to military targets, it is directed at Palestinian life itself. Civilians are killed because they are Palestinians. Children are starved because they are Palestinian. Homes are flattened not to win a battle, but to ensure that there is no life to return to.

The genocide in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation. It builds on decades of occupation, apartheid, and the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy laid the ideological and political groundwork for this moment, shifting from domination to erasure.

The horrific Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, accelerated a process already in motion and served as a catalytic moment in which the Israeli regime shifted from a system of violent control to overt genocide. The trauma suffered by Israeli society and fear it generated were instrumentalized by Israel’s extremist, far-right government to advance policies that key actors had long sought to implement. It provided the justification for every action undertaken by Israel in Gaza since. The language of vengeance and elimination became common in Israeli discourse, as explicitly declared by senior political and military officials.

The actions of the Israeli military in Gaza were not a deviation, but the direct and almost verbatim execution of those threats.

The same regime, commanders and army are also intensifying violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and within Israel. Across all of these areas, Palestinians face mounting violence, forced displacement and collective punishment. While the genocide is committed in Gaza, the appropriate trigger could cause it to spread rapidly to other areas controlled by Israel.

There is no mechanism in place to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians, who have been left with no protection.

This is genocide and it is happening now, in real time and in full view of the entire world. Genocide must be named, and everything must be done in order to stop it. There can be no justification or explanation for genocide.

Read the full report, “Our Genocide” >>
https://t.co/s6yp30kgmr

[Edith Mirante @EdithMirante]

1. This History Thread on Karenni Military History updates my 2019 Karenni History Thread. Posts 2-9 are adapted from that thread & 10-20 are on developments after 2021 Myanmar military coup, as #Karenni revolutionary forces have made impressive gains. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

[Frontier Myanmar @FrontierMM]

Almost four months on from a major earthquake, many homes still await repairs or demolition due to bureaucratic delays, while corruption and a shortage of quality materials and skilled workers mean cities aren’t building back better.

Read here: https://t.co/pNUPDFIdse