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Mar 20 4 tweets 1 min read
Persecution. Harassment. Loss of contact with family members.

This RFA Tibetan journalist has risked it all to report accurate, independent news about the atrocities faced by Tibetans in Tibet.

#WeAreRFA “My family members in Tibet were persecuted on account of my work. … They are still – to this day – being harassed by the Chinese government,” he said.
Oct 6, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
How Sagaing became the epicenter of the Myanmar junta’s crackdown

rfa.org/english/news/s… In the third installment of RFA’s special report, we spoke to residents of Sagaing, an agricultural region with a rich Buddhist history, about the high price its people have paid for resisting military rule.
Jun 18, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
Content Warning: Violence/Death/Torture

“I had to cut off the head, bro”

🧵 Images obtained by RFA from the phone of a junta soldier appear to show evidence of military atrocities in Myanmar’s #Sagaing region. One of the photos on the phone shows around 30 men blindfolded with their hands tied behind their back, held by soldiers at a monastery. Two of what appear to be the same men are seen dead in photos taken a day later of five victims of an execution.