Manel alert

"Buddhist majority in Myanmar have persecuted Rohingya Muslims for decades" Facebook fueled Myanmar's violence. "Careless People" reveals how hate speech, unchecked manipulation, & poor moderation led to real-world harm, per UN report. Sarah Wynn-Williams #Myanmar #Facebook #HateSpeech

Excellent new paper by Jared Bissinger on the steady decline in Myanmar's economy and quality of life, with 77% of population below or near poverty line. The problems are all political, nothing any technical experts could try to fix. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.iseas.edu.sg/wp-content/u...

FFS www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

My article "Negotiating for Meaning Along 'Language Borders': Refugee Families from Burma/Myanmar in a US Public School District," published online in 2022, now (3 yrs later!) in print in the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. First 50 downloads free! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/68SSQ...

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar From Sen.Gen. MAL message to ethnic brethren in 4 January GNLM, a sign of how bad things are, when he promises:

Neither 2014 nor today’s preliminary 2024 were remotely accurate. Like all other numbers in Myanmar, they are filled with fancy made up “facts”

Could the Myanmar Junta Rapidly Collapse Like al-Assad? asked by @CFR Josh Kurlantzick at https://www.cfr.org/blog/could-myanmar-junta-rapidly-collapse-al-assad #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar (1/1)

Re: census: "The entire exercise of population census was peaceful, a likely pointer for the conduct of peaceful elections." Minimum of 50 confirmed assassinations of ward administrators & census officials; 7 percent of all 63,000 villages in the country enumerated. Election will be a bloodbath.

So who plays the role Turkey did in taking down Assad?

#Breaking Myanmar Now and BBC Burmese report that China has handed over Zahkung Ting Ying, the former Kachin Special Region 1 chairman whose Border Guard Force and militia were recently defeated by the Kachin Independence Army, to the Myanmar junta in Naypyidaw (1/3) www.facebook.com/100064582638...

Hell on earth 😰

I am delighted to have just read Mike Dunford's brilliant ANU Ph.D. dissertation, The Flavour of Empire: Tea Production and the Ta'ang World in Highland Southeast Asia. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar https://tinyurl.com/3nwh8tdn#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Mike is a gifted writer & linguist, & a relentless researcher (1/4)

Where in the world is Min Aung Hlaing? Look carefully.... he's the teeny tiny guy way in the back of the stage, while massive screens out front (left and right) make him look larger than life. Nov. 28 centenary of economics education event. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

Only 4 days left to apply for this USAID/Burma Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship Program. Please, please apply now. A Trump Administration will surely end funding future rounds of this great opportunity. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Please check out the website: www.usaiddisp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...