Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
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This thread is only a fraction of what I've seen & what people told me in Sagaing, Myanmar.
If any editors would be interested in any stories about Sagaing, the people, fighters, refugees, war crimes, drone units etc, or if anyone know of any editors who might, my DMs are open!
I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago.
I'll share some impressions below 🧵
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The mayor of Tangiers (Morocco) has FLED the country after being warranted for voter fraud
He’s accused of ballot stuffing in favour of his party PAM that emerged as largest party in Wednesday’s election
The mayor is allegedly in Spain and there’s also warranted by Interpol now
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🚨 In #Kazakhstan, police officers have begun calling and visiting ordinary citizens at their homes after they expressed their views on social media over the deaths of 14 young conscript soldiers during military exercises in the Caspian Sea.
I am sharing just some of the audio and video recordings that have surfaced so far, documenting threats and pressure by police in Kazakhstan.
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Serbia 🇷🇸: large turnout for the Student List in the city of Kragujevac, where hundreds of people gathered today to show their support for the opposition, ahead of next month's elections.
Serbia 🇷🇸: The Student List, which is currently the most prominent opposition party ahead of next month's elections, is touring across the country to campaign on bicycles.
Here they receive a warm welcome reception in the town of Topola.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪: last night Jorge Rodriguez became the first regime official to present a timeline on elections. They will be held in 2030, so not early as the constitution demands.
This gives Delcy and Jorge four years to consolidate their control, dismantle the opposition, and maintain power.
ÚLTIMA HORA | Jorge Rodríguez: "Claro que habrá elecciones, habrán cuatro"
"¿Qué tenemos por delante? elecciones parlamentarias, elecciones a alcaldes, elecciones de gobernadores y elecciones presidenciales; en el lapso que establece la Constitución" acortar.link/HDSKG9
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The man who bought Sierra Leone. Jos Leijdekkers’s is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals. His greatest caper yet looks to be the takeover of a country. In half a decade Leijdekkers has turned Sierra Leone, a place previously best known for blood diamonds, into a hub for billions of dollars’ worth of Colombian cocaine, disguised as rice or plantain chips, which pass through each year en route to Europe. By funnelling a share of the profits to Sierra Leone’s political elite and funding large parts of the state itself, Leijdekkers has amassed perks that would be the envy of a Bond villain. He is believed to have a Sierra Leonean diplomatic passport. The police and military establishment bow to him, squadrons of container ships and submarines ply the shores at his command, and he is escorted in a motorcade by the presidential guard beneath a cloud of drones
economist.com/interactive/18…
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RT @javierespinosa2: Un día cualquiera en #Kramatorsk en el este de #Ucrania Los ataques de los drones rusos contra los residente, sus vivi…
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Serbia 🇷🇸: The Student List, which is currently the most prominent opposition party ahead of next month's elections, is touring across the country to campaign on bicycles.
Here they receive a warm welcome reception in the town of Topola.
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The funny thing about this video is that it serves both the pro-Ukraine advocates in the West and the anti-Ukraine advocates in Russia.
Esta ciudad de Ucrania celebró el Orgullo bajo tierra, huyendo de los bombadeos Rusos.
Se trata de Járkov, una población que mantiene encarnizados combates para impedir el avance del ejercito invasor de Putin y mantienen viva la ciudad. Hilo.
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She really is her own worst enemy lol.
Holocaust Distortion from U.N. “Expert”: Francesca Albanese claims Jews in Nazi death camps “were called Muslims.” Antisemitism targets “Semitic peoples” and “not just discrimination against Jews.”
Even in Nazi death camps: She cannot name Jew-hatred without replacing the Jews.
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Ukrainian forces are in Libya 🇺🇦🇱🇾
Investigation by @thegeopoldesk has revealed that Ukrainian personnel have established a presence in Misrata, training GNU forces in drone warfare as well as keeping tabs on the Russian shadow fleet in the Meditteranean thegeopoliticaldesk.com/ukra…
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You don't wanna miss this!
Myanmar 🇲🇲
Will be interviewing @ThomasVLinge tomorrow at 4pm est about the state of the war in Myanmar, and the use of drones by rebel forces. Which have disrupted the juntas supply lines, like those along the rivers, with low cost FPV and bomber variants.
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Stop de Oorlogskoorts roept op om bij hun protest van zondag GEEN Russische vlaggen mee te nemen, en dat wordt hen niet in dank afgenomen door hun supporters
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There are a million reasons why people rose up against the Assad regime, none more important than its naked brutality. A regime that openly treats its people with contempt is a regime ultimately living off borrowed time. May Syria never again become a police state.
هذه اللقطات هي آخر لقطات شاهدنا فيها هؤلاء الشباب أحياء، وبعدها تحولوا إلى جـ.ـثـ.ـث هامدة بعد قـ.ـتلهم
هذا المقطع يظهر فيه شباب من أبناء دير الزور قامت قوات النظام البائد بوضعهم على الحائط بهذه الطريقة قبل أن يتم إعـ.ـدامـ.ـهـــم جميعاً
تم تصويره في فترة مـ.ـجـــ.ـزرة حيي الجورة والقصور في دير الزور في 25 أيلول 2012.
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Sudan 🇸🇩: soldiers of the Joint Forces entering the town of Sodari in North Kordofan under the sound of celebratory gunfire
Sudan 🇸🇩: the SAF and Joint Forces report to have taken control of the town of Sodari, pushing the RSF out of their last remaining urban stronghold in North Kordofan.
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Sudan 🇸🇩: the SAF and Joint Forces report to have taken control of the town of Sodari, pushing the RSF out of their last remaining urban stronghold in North Kordofan.
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Venezuelan student asks Sanchez to support the call for free elections in Venezuela and he goes on a two minute ramble about migration quotas.
Pedro Sánchez vino a Harvard y perdió la oportunidad de hablar claro sobre Venezuela.
Le pedí a @sanchezcastejon que reclame elecciones en Venezuela y que se distancie de Zapatero por sus vínculos con el Madurismo.
Sobre lo primero, tímida respuesta. Sobre lo segundo, ni eso.
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Shocking heartless, heartbreaking video showing how families learnt of deaths of their loved ones in an accident during military manoeuvres is a stain on the authorities. Surprised Tokayev carried on attending a #Kazakhstan-#China forum in Almaty instead of going to comfort them
A heartbreaking video has been circulating online, showing the families of the soldiers waiting for news as the names of the dead are announced. The names are read out coldly and impersonally, as if they were a list of items written off and disposed of rather than human lives. It is heartbreaking to hear the voices and reactions of the families at the moment they hear their sons’ names being read out...
#Kazakhstan
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