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CNN: Echoing QAnon, Michael Flynn calls for Myanmar-style coup in USA--creating uproar. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/politics/michael-flynn-qanon/index.html One acquaintance says F shld serve his sentence at notorious M prison, Insein. Myanmar Coup--oil tankers relabled "syrup" 6-1-2021    
My 2017 Rohingya Genocide pamphlet-- https://www.amazon.com/Rohingya-Genocide-Burma-2012-2017-Actvists/dp/1981805028  

15 year old who took out 2 tanks --Resistance Burma

One young man, two tanks.  It's incredible. I am trying to find out more. His family must be very proud.  
Senator Mitch McConnell speaks up forcefully for democracy in Burma. h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnM38N2PpA It was a good speech and I am glad Zin Mar Aung cld join them, via Zoom?   It's a very forceful statement and at last McC has clarity, after hemming and hawing so much abt trump.   We're beggars these days, and we have to accept everyone who comes to our side.   5-26-2021      
myanmar junta selling illegal timber https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-auctions-illegal-timber-for-hard-currency-eia.html  
Special post--PBS Terror in Myanmar https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/myanmar-military-killing-protestors-civilians-as-psychological-warfare-after-coup  
Lawyer for Dr Myo Aung arrested after leaving NPT Court Hearing. https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/lawyer-for-dr-myo-aung-arrested-after-nay-pyi-taw-court-proceedings  
Democracy activist brother of police chief tortured to death--Burma. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-police-chiefs-democracy-activist-brother-dies-in-custody.html    It is becoming beyond belief, of genocide proportions.   USA and EU and other nations need to do something.   5-26-2021  
Ryanair deflected off route and arrested Belarus activist has probably been tortured. https://www.newsweek.com/high-probability-belarus-agents-torturing-journalist-nabbed-flight-says-opposition-leader-1594599  

Burma Coup, 3 links, Aung San Suu Kyi, clashes in Kachin and Karenni States.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/detained-myanmar-leader-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-kept-in-isolation.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hundreds-of-kachin-state-villagers-flee-myanmar-junta-artillery-strikes.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/five-myanmar-junta-troops-killed-in-kayah-state-as-home-minister-visits.html 5-25-2021  
Excellent interview: Is Myanmar a failed state. Excellent interview-- https:// youtube.com/watch?v=qz11hb 86GwM&t=217s The young lady looks abt 17 and is just incredible. 5-25-2021  
Latest on Burma--body snatching, abuse of corpse, fleeing into forest + Aung San Suu Kyi's 2nd court appearance. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-troops-snatch-bodies-of-four-civilians-killed-in-kayah-church.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/villager-killed-by-myanmar-junta-forces-residents.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-says-nld-will-survive-as-long-as-the-people-do.html  
Belarus activist arrested after his flight forced to land-- https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/europe/belarus-activist-emergency-landing-intl/index.html  

The incredible Mr Ben Menashe

Dickens & Madson Canada, a Montreal-based firm, agreed to represent the junta in Washington via Israeli-Canadian lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe. Documents submitted by Ben-Menashe showed that the agreement was reached with the junta's defense minister, General Mya Tun Oo and that the government would pay the firm $2 million.   https://www.jpost.com/international/myanmar-junta-leader-welcomes-russia-as-true-friend-663356   They got MAH's name wrong.   I found bc I Googled "Ben Menashe and Than Shwe" as Shwe's photo was in previous article.   Even CNN used B-M to get access to Myanmar, which is where I first heard his name.   5-23-2021  
Mizzima journalists among refugees going to Dehli to UNHCR--from May 4 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/4/myanmar-nationals-given-safe-passage-to-delhi-to-seek-un-refuge I know or knew Soe Myint and Thin Thin Aung, Founders of Mizzima, and I do hope they are safe.  

From 2014, they ran it--Fire in the Eves to Major Conflagration--in Truthout.

https://truthout.org/articles/fire-in-the-eves-to-major-conflagration-its-high-time-to-evaluate-burmas-so-called-democratic-reforms/ I do so hate being right. It almost kills me. I only found this by wondering where else I shld submit a poem I just wrote. I can't post that bc most publications want a new piece that has not been on social media yet. kmk 5-22-2021  
A good place to donate--Mae Tao Clinic http://www.sianpowell.com/kindness-of-strangers.html https://maetaoclinic.org/ 5-22-2021  
Masks and children under 12--Dr. Lena Wen https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/children-under-12-covid-vaccine/index.html I don't understand why ppl are so dense. KEEP THE MASK ON. I would never risk my life or others' esp. children, for a mask. After all, we don't know who in public has been fully vaccinated or not. 5-22-2021  
Burma/Myanmar Coup Don't bloody call them rebels or insurgents they r FREEDOM FIGHTERS Civilian Militia fighting a terrible military junta w slingshots Bamboo weapons Muskets. Why did junta send back bodies of tortured & killed w o internal organs Were these exported to China