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Rep. Brad Sherman
@BradSherman
·May 4

See my questioning of Burma/Myanmar’s dissent
@UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun. He speaks eloquently against the coup but, like many democracy advocates from #Burma, gives disappointing answers regarding the #Rohingya.

The battle for Myanmar plays out on Twitter, TikTok and Telegram

DW

Date 20.04.2021
Author Ole Tangen Jr

Young activists are risking arrest and using technology to ensure that their campaign for democracy continues in the face of a military clampdown on the internet.

Myanmar's young, grassroots protest movement uses social media to organize

Thinzar Shunlei Yi is one of the few pro-democracy activists in Myanmar who is willing to do on-the-record interviews.

But while her identity may be known, her location and data are protected by layers of security protocols.

Twitter launches #MilkTeaAlliance emoji to mark 1-year anniversary of solidarity movement

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Coconuts Hong Kong 

Apr 8, 2021 

The Milk Tea Alliance, originally a loose coalition that brewed among activists in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, has grown into a broader movement against growing authoritarianism in many parts of Asia. Photos: Twitter

Twitter has introduced an emoji for the #MilkTeaAlliance hashtag to mark the the first anniversary of the solidarity movement, which has united protesters in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and beyond in their fights against authoritarianism.

Myanmar: 38 Died on Deadliest Day Yet for Military Coup Opposition, Says UN

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Agency News PTI

Mar 04, 2021

Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month's military coup.

Yangon, March 4: Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month's military coup.

A UN official speaking from Switzerland said 38 people had been killed Wednesday, a figure consistent with other reports though accounts are difficult to confirm inside the country. The increasingly deadly violence could galvanise the international community, which has responded fitfully so far. 

Myanmar Shuts Down All Passenger Flights in Country Amid Political Crisis. 

“Today it was the bloodiest day since the coup happened on February 1. We have today — only today — 38 people died. We have now more than over 50 people died since the coup started" and more have been wounded, the U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, told reporters at UN headquarters on Wednesday. 

Twitter Suspends Account of Top Myanmar General Over Hate Speech

Radio Free Asia
2019-05-16

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) presides over a meeting in Naypyidaw with military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R) commemorating the third anniversary of the signing of Myanmar's nationwide cease-fire agreement, Oct. 15, 2018.
Handout/Myanmar State Counselor's Office/AFP

Myanmar’s top military leader, seen by rights groups as the architect of a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign that drove more than 700,000 Muslim Rohingya into Bangladesh in 2017, had had his Twitter account suspended, RFA has learned.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accused by the United Nations of, among other things, genocide for the Rohingya campaign, had his @sgminaunghlaing account taken offline this week, nine months after his Facebook account was shuttered for hate speech against the ethnic minority.

Military Denies Army Chief Used Twitter after Company Blocks Account

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint
16 May 2019

 Snr-Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in 2017 / Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy

YANGON—Military spokesman Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun downplayed Twitter’s suspension of the account of Myanmar Army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, denying the commander-in-chief had ever officially used the social media platform.

Banned: Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing gets the boot from Twitter

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By Coconuts Yangon

May 15, 2019 | 

 Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing speaks at a military parade in honor of Armed Forces’ Day in Naypyidaw. Photo: Facebook / Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

General Min Aung Hlaing’s tweeting days are over.

The top-ranking general in Myanmar, notorious for insisting that there was no use of “excessive force” in the August 2017 military campaign that drove out more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims, was given the boot by the social media network yesterday, a move that follows similar suspensions of his accounts on Facebook and Russia’s VK platform in August.

Attempts to access the commander-in-chief’s Twitter profile today, will redirect you to a landing page that simply says the “account has been suspended.”