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10 Feb, 10 tweets, 6 min read
1. This History Thread is about a few of Myanmar's murdered & missing women. Rest in Power: Myat Thet Thet Khine who stood against dictatorship Feb. 9 2021. 1 of thousands of women killed by/for Burma/Myanmar military & business interests. This must end. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
2. September 19, 1988 Win Maw Oo bled to death, one of many female students & other women who were killed by Burma military suppressing 1988 uprising, suffocated, shot, drowned (Red Bridge Incident.) apnews.com/article/dfc91e…
3. September 2004: This data from “Unsafe State: State-sanctioned Sexual Violence Against Chin Women in Burma” 2007 report by Women's League of Chinland is one of countless murders of women by Burma/Myanmar military documented by NGOs & INGOs for decades. burmalibrary.org/docs4/UnsafeSt…
4. October 2011, Sumlut Roi Ja, a Kachin farmer & mother was taken captive by Myanmar Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion 321 and disappeared. Missing, presumed dead.
frontiermyanmar.net/en/finding-roi…
5. January 2015, Maran Lu Ra and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin Kachin volunteer teachers murdered in Kaung Kha Village, Kutkai Township, Shan State, Myanmar. Tatmadaw Infantry Battalion 503 in village but never charged, case “unsolved.” irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fou…
6. August 2016, Raysuana, a Rohingya woman found dead in a Myanmar military camp, Sittwe, Rakhine St. From later in 2016 through 2017 thousands of Rohingya women were killed in genocidal campaign by Myanmar military & allied groups. mmtimes.com/national-news/…
7. November 2016, murdered: “Eh Paw Tel” (Chit Pandaing), Karen ethnic environmental defender. “A strong advocate against human right violations, land confiscation & the negative impacts of mining in [SE Myanmar] The murder case is linked to [her] work.” hrdmemorial.org/hrdrecord/naw-…
8. July 2018, 6 female medics of Ta’ang National Liberation Army killed after being captured by Tatmadaw 88th Light Infantry Division in Myanmar’s Shan State. frontiermyanmar.net/en/conflict-co…
9. February 2019, Ye Ye Soe, 18 year old Rakhine villager, Rathedaung township, killed by “indiscriminate firing upon them by national [Myanmar military] troops.” rfa.org/english/news/m…
10/10. Know their stories. They were more than their murders & so much more than the murderers. Myanmar, there will be songs, poems, gardens. This thread also in honor of all those whose stories we will never know. Other History Threads: projectmaje.org #TroopWithdrawal

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1. This mini History Thread is a brief explainer on peoples resistance to oppression in Burma (Myanmar.) It’s especially for my Portland people (“latte alliance”) who might want some background on the Feb. 1, 2021 Myanmar coup and the protests against it.
2. Diverse lands that would become Burma (Myanmar in 1989) included trade kingdoms like Arakan & Pegu, independent mountain peoples. 18th C. British conquered but resistance including armed uprisings & labor strikes continued throughout Colonial period. irrawaddy.com/specials/on-th…
3. WW2 was extremely destructive in Burma & different ethnic groups took different sides. After Japanese fascist occupation ended, Britain finally granted independence. New govt was opposed by a major Communist insurgency & by ethnic groups fighting for autonomy or independence.
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2. Independent lands later border-defined as Burma were traveled by nomads, traders, pilgrims. Early Chinese travelers arrived by land, sea. 9th C. Persian & Arab seafarers visited Arakan, Pegu. Nicolo di Conti (Venice) in Arakan 1435. Russian & Genoese seafarers later in 15th C. ImageImageImage
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1. This History Thread is about US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Detachment 101, a multi-ethnic force Allied against Fascism in World War 2 Burma. It’s based on my article “Fire-Hardened” in Oct. 2020 issue of The Sentinel: specialforces78.com/chapter-78-new…
2. Burma was a British colony when invaded by Japan in 1942. A barrier to supply routes from India to US-supported Chinese military. Lt. Gen. “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell persuaded of need for a specialized intelligence unit by Brig. Gen. “Wild Bill” Donovan, founding director of OSS.
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1. Brief explainer thread (mostly for my Portland people) about Thailand protests. Bangkok protesters at start of curve where they get geared up. Umbrella walls (vs pepper spray spiked water cannons.) Massive numbers of protesters & hundreds of riot cops.
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31 Jul 20
1. Instead of my usual monthly Burma (Myanmar) topic, this History Thread is a brief backgrounder on Portland, Oregon’s history as it relates to the ongoing Portland Black Lives Matter protest situation, along with an overview of those events.
2. Portland (653k pop. 2018) is on violently stolen land of #Indigenous Mollala, Multnomah, Kathlamet, Chinook, Clackamas, Tualatin Kalapuya & other Nations. White colonizers' timber towns were established along the Willamette River in 19th Century. oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/urban…
3. Oregon was founded w. racial exclusions incl. “lash law.” White settlers feared free Black people & #Indigenous people alliance. 1857 state Constitution excluded all Black people. State’s racism history also violence/massacre against Chinese immigrants. oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/s…
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1. This History Thread is about Burma (Myanmar) and natural disasters. Geography: Bay of Bengal & Sagaing Fault create conditions but disaster effects worsened by Climate Crisis, deforestation, economic/regional/ethnic inequality, info/funding/planning/academic gaps & corruption.
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