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[AmateurAgitator]

Comrade in Myanmar needs help with hospital costs and is in a serious situation. Please donate if you can and share the link to this crowdfunder. This has been set up and is being run by comrades :

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-oakars-hospital-bill?qid=dea0c4a890a47d8299a3c148954279d7

Since they began in 2007 The Rebel Riot have touched the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people. Over the past ten years or more, they have been making waves with their Food Not Bomb project, and in 2017 were brought over to the UK for a historic tour. Following the repression against the people of Myanmar by the military after the coup in 2021, Oakar, the bass player and Hnin, a vocalist on the last album, escaped to Thailand.

Last week Oakar became ill and found it hard to breathe. On Saturday he was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and a pulmonary embolism. He is in ICU now.

The good news is he has been taken off the ventilator, had all the tubes removed and can breathe on his own, however because of the blood clots in his lungs he has to remain in the hospital until the medication has done its job and the blood clots dissolve, but this will take some time.

The bad news is the cost of treatment in the hospital has already reached 81,000 Thai Baht, which is almost £2,000 and over $2,000. Every day he is in hospital receiving life-saving treatment the costs continue to rise.

Once Oakar leaves the hospital he will have to go through a period of recovery and will be unable to work for a while.

Please donate whatever you can afford and help us reach our target.


Thankyou.

 

[teqniq]

In-depth article here, worth a read. First in a series of three apparently. Tl;dr the situation is dire:

Two Years of Turmoil: Myanmar’s Spiraling Civil War

The country is in the grips of a nationwide struggle between two groups, neither of which is in any frame of mind to seek a peaceful political solution.

thediplomat.com

 

[teqniq]

Saw this earlier. It has some positive stuff to report amidst the atrocities carried out by the junta:

Amid the Fight for Myanmar, Federalism Rises from the Grass Roots

On April 11, Myanmar’s ruthless military dictatorship showed just how much it fears the emergence of local governments that have slipped beyond its control. As about 200 villagers in the Sagaing region celebrated a new administrative center after junta-controlled officials had fled, fighter jets...

www.usip.org

 

[teqniq]

Very informative article with a number of videos, if interested, recommended:

Myanmar’s jungle war: ‘If I don’t die now, when will I?’

Life and death on the front lines of fighting in Myanmar’s Kayah state.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[teqniq]

‘You must all die’: The military’s war on Sagaing Catholics

 

[teqniq]

* bump *

A woman by the name of Erin Kissane has done a lot of research into Meta/Facebook's key involvement in the Rohingya genocide. Below is a link to part 1:

Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website

“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick

erinkissane.com

 

[yield]

A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses

The president warns the country could break apart after the army's biggest setback since its 2021 coup.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[yield]

Myanmar’s military is losing ground against coordinated nationwide attacks, buoying opposition hopes
AP. December 1, 2023

Complicating matters for the military is China ‘s apparent tacit support for the Three Brotherhood Alliance, stemming, at least partially, from Beijing’s growing irritation at the burgeoning drug trade along its border and the proliferation of centers in Myanmar from which cyberscams are run, frequently by Chinese organized crime cartels with workers trafficked from China or elsewhere in the region.

As Operation 1027 has gained ground, thousands of Chinese nationals involved in such operations have been repatriated into police custody in China, giving Beijing little reason to exert pressure on the Brotherhood to stop fighting.

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, remains far bigger and better trained than the resistance forces, and has armor, airpower and even naval assets to fight the lightly armed militias organized by various ethnic minority groups.

But with its unexpectedly quick and widespread losses and overstretched forces, morale is sagging with more troops surrendering and defecting, giving rise to a wary optimism among its diverse opponents.

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Still, unlike the civil war in Syria where multiple groups have different and often conflicting objectives, in Myanmar the anti-military groups are not fighting among each other, he said.

“It’s important to emphasize that many groups have the shared goal of either overthrowing or dismantling or severely depleting the capacity of the military regime,” Michaels said.

It was Nov. 15 when the AP first contacted the Tatmadaw captain, reaching him as he was fleeing a position through the jungle near the border town of Monekoe, one of the alliance’s primary targets.

He was able to link up with others, and then led a column back to the Monekoe area to take charge of an outpost on Nov. 22, when he gave the AP a grim assessment of his situation.

“We are surrounded by enemies,” he said, adding that even local army-affiliated militia could not be trusted.

“Here it is difficult to differentiate between who is enemy or friend,” he said.

 

[Riklet]

Fingers crossed they can get these awful military despots out next year...

It's interesting to see the Chinese are sick of the junta too.

 

[JimW]

Rohingya girls in forced marriages: 'I feel trapped': Scores of underage Rohingya girls forced into abusive marriages in Malaysia

 

[JimW]

Load of students storm a refugee camp in Indonesia protesting about the number of Rohingya arriving. Cunts. Students in Indonesia protest the growing numbers of Rohingya refugees in Aceh province

 

[teqniq]

NYT piece here. i have actually been seeing a fair few tweets regarding this, the Junta definitely appears to be on the back foot:

A Ragtag Resistance Sees the Tide Turning in a Forgotten War

 

[yield]

Strategically important Myanmar military HQ appears to fall to the resistance, in a blow to regime
August 6, 2024

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military regime acknowledged Monday it had lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast, adding credence to a militia group’s claims it had captured the base.

The fall of the army’s Northeast Command in Lashio city would be the biggest in a series of setbacks for Myanmar’s military government this year, as an offensive by an alliance of powerful militias of ethnic minority groups makes broad gains in the civil war.

“The regime’s loss of the Northeast Command is the most humiliating defeat of the war,” said Morgan Michaels, a Singapore-based analyst with the International Institute of Strategic Studies who runs its Myanmar Conflict Map project. “Without Lashio, it will be extremely difficult for the regime to hold onto its final outposts in the theater.”

 

[yield]

2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid ‘total economic collapse’
Guardian Thu 7 Nov 2024

The conflict in Rakhine state, on Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh, re-erupted late last year, and the state remains gripped by intense fighting between the military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic Rakhine group that wants an autonomous state.

The UNDP report said restrictions put in place by the military were “clearly aimed at isolating Rakhine from the rest of the country and exacting ‘collective punishment’ on an already vulnerable population”.

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has previously rejected the accusations, blaming instead the Arakan Army for “destroying the socio-economic life of residents, education and health sector”. The interior ministry has been contacted for further comment.

The situation is especially desperate for the 511,000 displaced people in Rakhine, including Rohingya, who rely on aid from humanitarian agencies and the community.

Access was “severely limited” for aid agencies, Wignaraja said, hampered by military-imposed bureaucratic hurdles, such as requirements for special permits, as well as the intensity of the conflict.

Basic health programmes such as immunisation campaigns have stopped, HIV patients cannot access antiretroviral medicines.

 

[Dogsauce]

Arakan army has attacked Rohingya villages too, their hands aren’t clean. But they’ve made considerable progress pushing out the Junta in some areas, though the response from the Junta has been to bomb marketplaces etc. like the worst kind of cunts.

There has been quite a lot of support for Arakan from left/human rights groups but some of this has been squandered with anti-Rohingya actions.

 

[teqniq]

editor It might be an idea to merge this and the friendless Rohingya thread because posts concerning the civil was in general are being posted on both threads:

See below article on conscripts in the civil war:

Myanmar conflict: 'My husband was forcibly conscripted. Then he died'

Myanmar's mandatory conscription has upended the lives of countless people. The BBC spoke to four of them.

www.bbc.com

 

[editor]

editor It might be an idea to merge this and the friendless Rohingya thread because posts concerning the civil was in general are being posted on both threads:

See below article on conscripts in the civil war:

Myanmar conflict: 'My husband was forcibly conscripted. Then he died'

Myanmar's mandatory conscription has upended the lives of countless people. The BBC spoke to four of them.

www.bbc.com

Could you add the URL of the other thread please?

 

[teqniq]

Could you add the URL of the other thread please?

Apologies, here it is:

The friendless rohingya people in Burma, Why Suki is silent?

The rohingya people in Burma are friendless in world.Why Unsun Suki and other world leaders are silent. See the role of Burmise's army. http://dippic.com/dm11ac7573pn

www.urban75.net