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#Belarus: with presidential elections less than two months away president #Lukashenko is cracking down on political opponents, jailing several opposition figures rferl.org/a/belarus-oppo…
#Belarus: president #Lukashenko has ruled the country since independence and will be seeking a 6th term in office this August, but for the first time it seems that an easy victory is not guaranteed euronews.com/2020/06/12/bel…
#Belarus: one-by-one #Lukashenko's rivals are being picked off the streets and jailed or brought in for questioning.

Presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka was arrested together with his son. rferl.org/a/potential-lu…
#Belarus: thousands of Belarusians gathered in #Minsk to protest the arrest of opposition candidate #Babaryka
#Belarus: protesters in #Minsk forming a kilometers-long line to protest the arrest of Babaryka.

Via @svaboda
#Belarus: people in #Minsk rallied in their thousands today to protest #Lukashenko's attempt to steal another election, by locking up his opponents.

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#Belarus: the latest wave of anti-regime protests is already being dubbed the "Slippers Revolution" as protesters carry around slippers wishing to 'crush the cockroach' #Lukashenko economist.com/europe/2020/06…
#Belarus: anti-#Lukashenko protests in #Minsk continue into the night. Protesters are waving Belarusian independence flags Image
#Belarus: internet is shut down in #Minsk ahead of another planned anti-#Lukashenko rally
#Belarus: livestream of protests in #Minsk. Thousands have again turned out to protest #Lukashenko and support the opposition Internet is working sporadically in #Minsk. @RFERL stream is working as of now
#Belarus: outside of the capital #Minsk anti-#Lukashenko protests are taking place in at least 4 cities
#Belarus: reporter of @svaboda is taken away by #Minsk police while broadcasting on the protests
#Belarus: plain-cloth police picking journalists off the streets for arrest ImageImage
Photo of the day

#Minsk, #Belarus Image
#Belarus: thousands of Belarusians gathering in #Grodno to support jailed opposition candidates.
#Belarus: riot police confront a pro-opposition protest in the western city of #Brest
#Belarus: in Molodechno a fight broke out between protesters and riot police after some of the protesters resisted their arrest
#Belarus: another video of the incident in Molodechno. Some protesters throw stuff at the police van while others chant "shame" as it drives away
#Belarus: map showing all the locations that reported anti-#Lukashenko protests today
#Belarus: more arrests are being reported today. People are apparently picked off the streets of #Minsk by undercover police ImageImage
#Belarus: hundreds of people gathered at the Belarusian embassy in #Warsaw today, protesting against #Lukashenko and the many arrests these past days
Via @tutby
#Belarus: calls of president #Lukashenko to be defeated these elections have spread to the lower ranks of the Belarusian armed forces.

Even as an isolated case this is significant Image
#Belarus: more and motr soldiers, policemen and medical workers arr voicing solidarity with the protesters and speak out against #Lukashenko.

3% refers to Lukashenko's support rate in an online poll ImageImageImageImage
#Belarus: even members of the riot police are joining in.

#Lukashenko seems to be in real trouble this time Image
#Belarus: Belarusian telegram channels are filled with pictures of soldiers, policemen, border guards and medics speaking out against #Lukashenko and his regime ImageImageImageImage
#Belarus: even members of the Belarusian #KGB are starting to speak out against #Lukashenko.

The KGB! Image

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Aug 7
I've just come back from #Venezuela 🇻🇪 where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America.

I'll share some thoughts below 🧵 Image
First off before going into the political situation I just wanted to stress how great it was to be reminded how easy it is to fall in love with Caracas, and how amazing the Venezuelan people are.

Someone I'd met briefly 7 years ago, would greet me again as if we were family.


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I was never big about celebrating my birthday, so I figured I'll just arrive in Venezuela that day, do some work and let the day pass quietly, no big deal.

Well that wouldn't fly when I told my Venezuelan friends there. They insisted on celebrating, and even brought friends. Image
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Apr 10
I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).

During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.

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Karenni state (also known as Kayah state) as around the size of Qatar, which makes it the smallest of Myanmar's different states and regions.

Yet because of its proximity to the capital Naypyidaw (120 km) it is still a very strategic region.
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After three years of anti-coup resistance and armed struggle around 90% of Karenni is under resistance control.

Karenni is divided into 7 townships: Loikaw (capital), Demoso, Hpruso, Bawlakhe, Hpasawng, Shadaw, Mese.
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Nov 16, 2023
Strong indication from this Fox News report that the IDF is moving guns around in order to "proof" that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital.

IDF video claims that "minutes ago" they found a single gun behind the MRI machine, same spot in the FOX report: two guns were added.



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Seriously watch the original IDF video (re-uploaded minutes ago). At 1:48 the IDF spokesman literally said they found a single gun "just minutes ago", same room as where @TreyYingst walks through in his report. Yet Trey's report shows two extra guns placed in the exact spot
Although it doesn't disprove that the guns are from Hamas or that there are any guns in the hospital. It is a very clear sign that the IDF is moving guns around the hospital and places them in suspicious locations.

This puts everything they show about the hospital into question.
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Nov 14, 2023
#Palestine 🇵🇸 BREAKING: AJE reports that Israeli forces have informed the staff of al-Shifa that they will storm the #Gaza hospital tonight. Image
#Palestine 🇵🇸: multiple reports now that Israeli forces are INSIDE al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza city and are "carrying out operations" within the facility.
#Palestine 🇵🇸: the #IDF has released footage of their troops supposedly dropping off medical supplies at al-Shifa hospital.

But everything that's important is missing here. Where are the patients? Where are they alleged #Hamas tunnels?
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Oct 23, 2023
The dry season is starting in #Myanmar 🇲🇲. The drier weather and more accessible roads will mean an intensification of fighting between the junta and resistance across the country.

In the north the #KIA as already taken initiative & seized three bases irrawaddy.com/news/burma/kia…
#Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta warplanes have repeatedly targeted the village of Nyaung Kone in the Mogok Township (#Mandalay region) as fighting between junta forces and #TNLA & #PDF resistance groups is ongoing in the region.

Source: fb.watch/nTkbFARwmj/
#Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta forces clashed with local #PDF resistance in the Tabayin Township of #Sagaing region, after the soldiers ventured out into the countryside and tried to enter a resistance-controlled village.

Source: fb.watch/nTmjbw5tyf/
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Sep 19, 2023
#NagornoKarabakh BREAKING: Azerbaijani military forces have launched an artillery assault on the city of #Stepanakert.
#NagornoKarabakh: the sounds of artillery fire and air raid siren s fill the air over #Stepanakert this clouded Tuesday afternoon.

Azerbaijani rethoric strongly suggest they're intending to start another war to finish off Armenian self-rule in the region.
#NagornoKarabakh: Azerbaijani artillery is slamming into the hills around #Stepanakert as heavy fighting is ongoing in the region.
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