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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

Since 1962, Myanmar has experienced coups, mass demonstrations and popular uprisings. Only the latest coup, however, prompted a genuine revolution. Why? Here is a complete set of explainers. Read more: Part 1: bit.ly/3yPBnRd Part 2: bit.ly/3T9jzHx Part 3:…

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

"Our people, who are enduring the hardships of currency depreciation, will only find relief when we swiftly put an end to the junta's constant attempts to inflict further suffering." #Myanmar #NUG #EndDictatorship

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The junta still can't get 20% of students through matriculation, but it can snatch tens of thousands of youths away from their families for war Any engagement strategy based on the junta settling into a small "statelet" has to be OK with never-ending war, using these bodies

Myanmar junta forms committee for nationwide recruitment, training and supply of armed groups at village and ward levels as military losses mount. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Help The Irrawaddy Report the Truth from Myanmar bit.ly/3btQYpR bit.ly/3yWyKgh



Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

“You look like the night when tyrants die and the revolution triumphs” Sudan

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“I think it's a fundamental misreading of the situation inside Myanmar, that some of the people who have been involved in this, really, with all due respect, just don't know very much about Myanmar!” -- Scot Marciel, former US Ambassador to Burma insightmyanmar.org/coming-soon/20…


Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

As rumours spread again, a reminder that it is the military as an institution which is the problem, not the current leader. There are no reformers waiting in the wings.


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Even Wirathu, ultranationalist monk dubbed as “face of Buddhist terror” by Time Magazine for his firebrand hate speeches against Muslims, is now mocking Min Aung Hlaing for his losses. Pretty obvious SAC is having crisis even within its own ranks. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar


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"For the first time ever, an entire military region had been wiped out by the resistance." Min Aung Hlaing: I got this.

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BREAKING: MNDAA has confirmed capture of entire North Eastern Command HQ in Lashio. For the first time ever, an entire military region had been wiped out by the resistance. #MyanmarRevolution

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

STORIES THAT SHAPED UP US: Analyses of the causes of the 2021 coup tend to focus solely on Min Aung Hlaing. Many assume he acted alone. The Irrawaddy’s Executive Editor Kyaw Zwa Moe (writing as Naing Khit) thought differently in this commentary from 2021. bit.ly/4cdn2LQ


Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

Some of the discourse around SAF is reminding me of how liberal reformists talk about the police, it’s not about a few bad apples in leadership. It’s an oppressive institution, that has been used by state elites to violently suppress dissent + extract resources 4rm marginalized…


Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

1. This (recent) History Thread is an overview of the trajectory of armed resistance to the Myanmar (Burma) 2021 coup as it has evolved into a relentlessly effective nationwide revolution. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

22. As of mid-April '24 Myanmar coup regime has airforce, ports, major cities control, support from Russia, enabling by neighboring China/India/Thailand. Revolutionary forces have borders, logistical advantages, unflagging popular support, tactical superiority & fighting fitness.

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

All the good people of Sudan wanted was the dissolution of the RSF, for the army to the barracks, for the Kayzan to leave public life, and a civil state with a healthy social contract for every citizen. And they chose to burn the country down instead of concede to those demands


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My take: 👉 It's a people's revolution, not a civil war 👉 It's a process of coming together, building a nation in active war 👉 It's unprecedented, a serious political transformation 👉 It's time for int'l community, including ASEAN & UN, to step up #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Is Myanmar's military losing control? | a comprehensive update at a turning point in the post-coup uprising @AJInsideStory youtu.be/ebYwvSQ3XyM?si… via @YouTube on @AJEnglish with @khinohmar @Kim_Jolliffe and @bequelin . @baysontheroad presenting. A tremendous job by all…



Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

The National Unity Government (NUG), the opposition party in Myanmar, has announced the surrender of junta regime forces totaling 120 personnel to People Defense Force (PDF) units under the Ministry of National Defense. The full surrender took place in Homalin township of Hkamti…

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

လင်ယူသားမွေး အိမ်ကူကျွန်တူလိုမျိုး ထားရာနေ စေရာသွား စိတ်ရှိတော့လာ စိတ်မရှိတော့ ခွာ အိမ်တွင်း ပြည့်တန်ဆာလို မွေးရာပါ အခွင့်မသာခဲ့တဲ့ ဘုန်းကံနိမ့်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ စောက်ချိုးမျိုးက ဆယ်စုနှစ်မှာ ကျန်ခဲ့ပြီ ဒီခေတ်မှာဖွား မိန်းမသားတွေက ပုခက်လွှဲတဲ့လက်နဲ့ သေနတ်ဆွဲရဲတဲ့ သတ္တိတွေအပြည့်...

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

Back in April 5 2016, when the second parliament was convened, the military MP said “NLD only got 79% of the votes so they should not claim it is a landslide victory”. This is the kind of people we are dealing with. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

Two or Three.... ** Trillion ** Dollars.... The UN estimated that up to 120,000 people could be held in compounds across Myanmar... In heavily guarded compounds controlled by local warlords... #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar cnn.com/2024/03/28/asi…


Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

A #CNN investigation led by @guswatson & @helenregs finds evidence the #Myanmar military junta burned alive 2 rebel soldiers. The footage is gruesome but we believe the world needs to see what is really happening inside Myanmar. @smmsuchay @PallabiMunsi edition.cnn.com/2024/03/27/asi…


Matthew Byron Arnold Reposted

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the UN's humanitarian access plan for #Sudan: 👏 👏 👏 What could possibly go wrong? Oh, right. Everything.

Imagine the people actively trying to kill you placed in charge of making sure you don’t starve to death.



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