Matthew Tostevin
@TostevinM
Journalist who has reported from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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Yet another village set on fire by junta forces in Myanmar. The campaign of arson rarely makes the news but Myanmar Witness is verifying all these events and recording them for the day when perpetrators will be held accountable #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
.Twan Mrat Naing , leader of the Arakan Army (AA), warns that “decisive battles” could break out soon for control of the Rakhine State capital Sittwe and the key port town of Kyaukphyu, and that residents should be prepared to evacuate. myanmar-now.org/en/news/arakan…
The shadow of razor wire on the face of a Venezuelan preparing to breach a fence line into the United States. Powerful image from Adrees Latif | ادريس لطيف
Myanmar’s military junta is losing on multiple fronts. As the drone attacks showed this week, it can no longer even protect its own capital. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
The drone attack on Myanmar's junta is also an indication of just how much of the country its opponents now control and how close they are to the capital bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
In a scathed landscape in Myanmar, just across the Moei river from Thailand, stands the unscathed KK Park, a criminal hub notorious for human trafficking, online fraud, forced labor, systematic torture organ & trafficking foreigners.
The Irrawaddy (Eng) irrawaddy.com/news/investiga…
Another heartbreaking sign of the criminal grip on Myanmar. Good news that a 17 year old Vietnamese girl has been rescued by Blue Dragon after 7 months enslaved in a brothel in Myanmar but how many more such cases are there? #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
'Killers of the Flower Moon' tells the tale of Native Americans murdered a century ago, but Indigenous People still face a crisis over their murdered and missing. By Chelsea T. Hicks of Osage News and Valerie Bauman of Newsweek newsweek.com/killers-flower…