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Smuggling podcasts into a Burmese prison Danny Fenster was jailed during the coup in Myanmar. This is the story of how he got through it.

My good friend Danny Fenster and his cousin Amy Kurzweil have created a beautiful comic about his time imprisoned in Yangon's Insein jail.

It’s a love story really about Danny and his wife Juliana.

Here’s a gift link:

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Holding the line in Mawdaung In the Myanmar border town of Mawdaung, seized last year by resistance forces led by the Karen National Union, residents struggle to survive as junta blockades and a closed Thai border leaves them on ...

2/2 🧵 Residents told us they were relieved the regime had been driven out. But they’re also struggling. Short video here:

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‘We survive one day at a time’: The resistance holds on to Mawdaung The Karen National Union-led capture of a key border town in Tanintharyi Region broke a string of regime advances across Myanmar, but life has become harder for civilians amid a blockade and border cl...

1/2 🧵 For most of last year, #Myanmar’s regime clawed back lost ground, with some fragile exceptions.

Then came a reversal: the resistance captured the strategic border town of Mawdaung.

We visited for the excellent @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social, feature: www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/we-surviv...

Telling Tales. It's what we do.

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Rebels prepare for ‘final battle’ in Myanmar as regime hi... On Monday voting ended in an election that rights groups say wasn’t free or fair. Lorcan Lovett meets people caught on both sides of a bloody conflict

Met a regime troop in a #Myanmar jail who walked us through his journey from conscript to PoW after his comrades staged a yaba-fueled last stand.

His story captures much that’s unraveled there.
📸 Valeria Mongelli @observeruk.bsky.social

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I Myanmar gömmer sig folket i djungeln medan juntan ordnar fuskval Svenska Yle har besökt en gränsstad i Myanmar som rebellerna precis befriat. ”Vi kan slå juntan om vi håller ihop”, säger soldaterna på plats.

Reporting for @yle.naamio.social from the ruins of a #Myanmar military base.

We also visited families sheltering in the jungle from the military’s airstrikes: yle.fi/a/7-10091456

Myanmar junta concludes its rigged election today.

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Myanmar’s Independent Media Innovates to Survive - Nieman Reports As U.S. funding vanishes for Myanmar's independent press, media competitors turn collaborators to keep reporting alive

Independent #Myanmar media faces an existential crisis as the junta readies sham elections in days.

When decades-long donors pull out, what comes next?

Reporting for @niemanreports.org with pics by Valeria Mongelli

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‘A constant fear’: Myanmar nationals face imprisonment back home as US ends protected status Thousands of Myanmar diaspora are at risk of deportation, after the US said they no longer required Temporary Protective Status

As #USA ends temporary protections for #Myanmar nationals, I spoke with 3 people whose lives are thrown into jeopardy & a diaspora alarmed Washington is lending legitimacy to the junta, which commits routine atrocities.

#WhatshappeninginMyanmar #Trump

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Episode #373: Echoes in the Absence — Insight Myanmar Field Notes from a Vanishing Nation

Had a great chat with Ei on the Insight pod. We talk about Aung San Suu Kyi’s awareness of the civil war plus a revamped Karen resistance strategy in eastern #Myanmar and lots more.

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‘I get lucky’: Challenging the lawyer who helped Myanmar junta suppliers When a US lawyer bragged on LinkedIn about lifting sanctions for Myanmar regime allies, I had questions. Here’s what unfolded.

A US lawyer didd a LinkedIn victory lap about securing sanctions relief for #Myanmar regime allies.

What he does isn’t illegal, but it deserves to be challenged. So I sent him a bunch of questions.

Here’s what unfolded:

4/4: I'll post the full logs + unedited video tomorrow on my Substack, On Myanmar: substack.com/@onmyanmar

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3/4: She spends hours each day meditating & reading, including French novels and junta-controlled newspapers -- these offer her some awareness of the civil war engulfing #Myanmar since the military seized power in 2021.

2/4: Health records reveal growing concerns:
She needs meds for heart issues, acid reflux & chronic dental/gum problems.

Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention Exclusive: Video and documents give rare glimpse inside daily life of timprisoned civilian leader as she nears her 80th birthday

Exclusive from me & Tin Htet Paing:

🧵1/4: We've obtained daily routine logs + courtroom footage of ousted #Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi — just ahead of her 80th birthday, which she’ll mark in military custody.

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Myth, ‘Mercenaries’ and the Myanmar Revolution Western fighters in Myanmar are few and scattered – but their presence fuels wild narratives.

2/2: I share things I've found reporting on the “Western mercenary” scene, which Indian officials have exaggerated.

It obscures the nature of Myanmar’s conflict – people fight this struggle against the regime largely alone:

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Trump said ‘not you’ The American Dream pulled us in – but for Myanmar nationals, it vanished like a mirage.

1/2: Weekend cross-over with Yan Naing
exploring two sides of #Myanmar.

Yan Naing reports on Trump’s visa ban, and calls out those who escaped the junta but now mock others seeking US resettlement:

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ミャンマー反乱勢力の“同志少女”が戦わなくてはならないもの | 殺した人数は「数えていない」 ミャンマー内戦では、若者も戦闘に加わっている一方、女性は「弱い」と考えられて後方業務に回されることが多いという。英紙「ガーディアン」が取材した反乱勢…

Our story on the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war has been translated to Japanese -- great to see the #Myanmar coverage reaching Japan

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In Liberated Tagu In Tanintharyi Region, a young rebel commander maps a complex uprising.

While junta troops skulk through the forest, communists, Muslim fighters, two ethnic Karen armed groups, PDF & militias stand in the open - in one township.

A commander in southern #Myanmar mapped it out.

Short dispatch, for free subscribers this week:

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Great job opportunity for journalists / editors who want to cover the #Myanmar revolution for a crucial outlet.

Will Chin be first state liberated this year?

Chatting on this week's Frontier podcast after Kachinland Research Centre's Danseng Lawn.

He breaks down how China's support of the #Myanmar junta / clipping the 3BA's wings influences KIA's strategy.

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Kindersoldaten stehen auf beiden Seiten der Front in Myanmar Im Westen von Myanmar gehört die 18-jährige „Anina“ – so ihr „Nom de Guerre“ – zu einer Rebelleneinheit, die die letzten Stützpunkte des Juntamilitärs belagert. Ihre Treffsicherheit als Scharfschützin...

German-speaking friends can now read the story of Anina, the young sniper fighting #Myanmar's dictatorship.

Something that didn't make the final cut: Anina was born on 20 February, the national day of her ethnic Chin people.

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'I burned entire villages': Myanmar military captain We interviewed a captured soldier in Chin State.

A captured #Myanmar military captain told us he torched villages. One of several sobering admissions in our Q&A.

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Could an earthquake shift the balance in Myanmar’s civil war? Aftershocks of Myanmar’s devastating earthquake add new dimension to country’s four-year-long civil war.

Will Myanmar’s earthquake reshape its civil war?

Analysts, resistance fighters and a military defector share their insights – from protective chants to shifting battle lines – for @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social

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Falam: A turning point in Myanmar's revolution? New forces demonstrate capabilities that could reshape the country's future.

The resistance has just captured Falam, the former capital of Chin State, from the #Myanmar military junta – a hard-earned and significant victory for Chin forces.

Here’s why it matters even more:

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‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war The country’s drawn out conflict has seen children recruited as soldiers on all sides. At the age of 18, Anina is a seasoned fighter with a feared reputation in her all-male resistance unit

Anina survived the final assault, helping resistance forces capture Falam. Today, she’s victorious.

But the town remains vulnerable to junta airstrikes, and many battles still loom on her horizon.

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36 people – 33 men & 3 women – died in gold mines in resistance-held Singu, Mandalay after the quake.

80 injured - 9 severely, including 3-year-old girl.

Thanks to NUG for quick responses to my enquiries.

Difficult access hampers other mine assessments in the region atm.

#Myanmar

HUGE news for the Chin resistance in western #Myanmar: the CNDF and its allies have successfully captured the former Chin capital Falam -- I've being told by multiple sources.

Will follow up soon with thread

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Good Morning Scotland - 05/04/2025 - BBC Sounds The latest news from home and abroad, along with sport, travel and weather updates.

2/2 The full scale of the devastation is still unclear. I’m now being told dozens of gold miners may have been killed in a resistance-held area of Mandalay Region.

Myanmar coverage starts at 01:24: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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1/2 I joined BBC Radio Scotland to discuss #Myanmar: how the #earthquake comes amid a brutal junta and revolution. How that uprising was triggered by the military coup and the junta killing peaceful protesters – never forget.

The #Myanmar junta is preparing a rare ground offensive to retake parts of Sagaing region amid the #earthquake chaos, reports Irrawaddy.

The regime prioritizing crushing the uprising over relief efforts will surprise no one. Can the resistance repel it?

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