When Springtime of Nations did our last video on the situation in Burma in April 2021, the military Junta (the ones who insist on calling the country “Myanmar” for cultural reasons) was killing civilians in the major cities with impunity. The only armed resistance was the decades old ethnic separatist groups who allied with the …
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As reported by Popular Front’s Jake Hanrahan, the FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9) has been identified in photos from Burmese resistance forces. These are the opposition armies that have been fighting the Burmese military state since February 2021 after the brutal suppression of peaceful protestors in the cities of the country following the blatant coup …
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This is the first time we’ve made two videos on a single national struggle. We probably aren’t going to do many more in the near future, although the Burmese civil war will doubtless need an updated treatment in the future. However, given how much has happened in Ethiopia since our video on the Tigray nationalists, …
This is a story told by a Springtime of Nations Associate Lap Gong Leong, a citizen of Hong Kong. Before Hong Kong’s 2020 Legislative Council Election was delayed twice, the sixth election since the handover was to be held on September 6th of that year. Concerned over the pro-democratic camp’s complacency after winning a stunning …
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from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a provisional government based on increased minority representation in the Multi-ethnic country, where …
from the South China Morning Post: For the crime of mentioning the existence of the 1940s East Turkestan Republic in a previously state sanctioned public school textbook, Sattar Sawut the former head of the Xinjiang education department has been given a suspended sentence of death for publishing “separatism” that led to the incitement of terrorism …
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from Reuters: As part of the ongoing war between the state of Burma (which the military dictatorship has been demanding be referred to as “Myanmar”) and a multitude of ethnic minority groups who wish to leave the central state, the Burmese Army has bombed a Karen village, killing at least 2 civilians and wounding 2 …
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From the BBC: “Witnesses say Girmay Gebru, who works for BBC Tigrinya, was taken along with four other people from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle. Mr Girmay is reported to have been taken to a military camp in Mekelle. The BBC is yet to establish the reason for his detention, but has expressed …
