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#Belarus: up to 45.000(!) people gathered in the capital #Minsk to support Svietlana #Tsikhanouskaya for president.

#Lukashenko can pull every trick he wants, his popularity seems to be done anyways
#Belarus: Belarusian independence flags as far as the eye can see. After decades of oppression Belarusians are rising up against the #Lukashenko regime
The massive pro-#Tsikhanouskaya in #Minsk as seen from the air.

Opposition rallies as large as this one are unheard of in #Belarus
Thousands of lights fill the park of the #Minsk gahtering as the Belarusians version of the anti-communist Polish song Mury plays in the background.

#Belarus is waking up
The song стены рухнут (walls will crumble) has become the anthem of the #Tsikhanouskaya campaign. It is a Belarusian version of the Polish anti-communism song Mury.

It was performed tonight at the massive opposition rally in #Minsk, #Belarus.
"And the walls will crumble, crumble, crumble! Decay for everlong"

#Minsk tonight. We can say without exaggeration the pro-democracy revolution of #Belarus is a fact
"And the walls will crumble, crumble, crumble! Decay for everlong"

#Minsk tonight. We can say without exaggeration the pro-democracy revolution of #Belarus is a fact
#Belarus: the capital #Minsk last night.

*I'm honestly speechless*
#Belarus: #Tsikhanouskaya rally in Smarhon today. Another small town with a large turnout
#Belarus: big turnout at the #Tsikhanouskaya rally in #Molodechno today
#Belarus: another packed event in support of #Tsikhanouskaya, this one in Lida
#Belarus: today #Tsikhanouskaya made a stop in the western city of #Grodno (#Hrodna), an estimated 10.000 people were there to welcome her
#Belarus: crowd of around 1000 supporters gathered in the town of Volkovysk (Vawkavysk) to meet #Tsikhanouskaya ImageImage
#Belarus: opposition rally in Volkovysk (Vawkavysk) today
#Belarus: hundreds at the #Tsikhanouskaya rally in the town of Slonim
#Belarus: a sea of people waiting to welcome #Tsikhanouskaya in thw western city of #Brest
Today is Airborne Forces Day in #Belarus and in #Brest paratroopers have come to the opposition rally to show their support to #Tsikhanouskaya ImageImageImageImage
#Belarus: the city of #Brest today. People everywhere you look
#Lukashenko used to say a woman could never be president of #Belarus.

#Tsikhanouskaya is determined to prove him wrong, and her campaign is empowering women and girls across the country ImageImage
#Belarus: the massive #Tsikhanouskaya rally as seen from above. According to human rights groups around 18.000 people were present
#Belarus: the faces of young Belarusians hoping for change.

In their entire lives they have known no other president than #Lukashenko. As the rest of #Europe entered one of its most free and prosperous periods ever their country remained in the dark, 'Europe's last dictatorship' ImageImageImageImage

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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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