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Jul 14, 2020 27 tweets 18 min read Read on X
Across #Belarus people are starting to rise up and get involved with politics. Even in smaller towns that never saw any protests before people are now joining the anti-#Lukashenko movement, outraged at police violence and repression. outride.rs/en/why-belarus…
#Belarus has a long tradition of jailing presidential candidates. @RFERL made a list of all the hopefuls who challenged #Lukashenko and were jailed because of it
#Belarus: the final list for next month's presidential elections has been published, #Lukashenko's biggest rivals including #Babaryka have been denied from running, sparking even more outrage among the people Image
#Belarus: protests are erupting all over the country following the publication of the final list of presidential candidates.

Protesters in #Minsk are honking the cars to demonstrate their outrage
#Belarus: protesters are again being picked off the streets by undercover police Image
#Belarus: anti-#Lukashenko protesters marching through the streets of #Minsk
Only in #Belarus: protesting on a bicycle to stay out of the hands of the police
#Belarus: hundreds of protesters are gathering across #Minsk, rallies like this one are very large for a city like Minsk Image
#Belarus: unbelievable scenes in #Minsk, protesters are actually starting to clash with riot police.
#Belarus:undercover police are working overtime trying to arrest all the protesters one-by-one Image
#Belarus: protesters forming a human chain so the police can't pick them up and arrest them separately Image
#Belarus: anti-#Lukashenko protests continue as the sun in setting.

Protesters are chanting "police are with the people!"
#Belarus: video ofna confrontation between protesters and police. The police try to arrest individual protesters as the crowd tries to stay together
#Belarus: young Belarusians actively resisting the police.

Europe's last dictatorship is crumbling down
#Belarus: another video of a direct confrontation between protesters and police in #Minsk
Cycling for freedom in #Belarus
#Belarus: for the second time in a month a @svaboda crew was arrested by the police while covering anti-#Lukashenko protests in the streets
#Belarus: Belarusians marching against #Lukashenko today ImageImage
#Belarus: night falls in #Minsk but police arrests continue
Belarusian police having a field day ImageImage
#Belarus: protester pushes down a police man as he tries to escape arrest
#Belarus: it's passed midnight in #Minsk and anti-#Lukashenko protests are still ongoing
#Belarus: a day of violent repression in #Minsk
#Belarus: the capital #Minsk last night.

A journalist crew from @tutby was assaulted by police and pushed into a bus, totally unprovoked
#Belarus: for the second day in a row Belarusians are gathering in lines to protest.

Police meanwhile are very busy arresting people for simply standing in line ImageImageImageImage
Violence continues against journalists in #Belarus.

@svaboda reporter Anton Trafimovich was punched in the face by police today Image
#Belarus: timelapse of a line of protesters.

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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?
Read 4 tweets
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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Aug 7, 2023
Taking about events in #Ethiopia 🇪🇹 in a group chat and it is striking that outside of the select view so many in international press, diplomacy, politics etc seem totally unaware that the most powerful country in Africa, with a population of 100M is about to implode.
If you thought the breakup of Yugoslavia (with a total pop. of 23M) was bad, wait until the same thing happens to an Ethiopian state of 100M, in a country already susceptible to famine, in a region already enflamed, with a totally clueless & divided international community
The latest round of fighting is to largely come down to an Amhara-Oromo war, with the Tigrayans *having lost around 8% of their people in the previous war* still being to weak to take an active role in the war.
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