a severe war with ukraine. well, laura, this is quite a rick marketable moment for katara, which is using different assets that he has to be able to further expand its political and economic influence a globally. and this is widely seen now as a chef. i mean, but 100 anthony is meeting with the u. s. president joe biden. they're going to talk about what kind of role katara is going to be able to provide in the future if the situation further deteriorates between the russians and the europeans. when it comes to the crisis in ukraine, the biggest concern for the american now is a massive disruption of or to the european. if the situation becomes worse. and for this, they would like to see some of the key players step in. and one of those key players is carter cutter has been basically providing the bulk of its natural gas export to

asia and market. but they have been saying over the past few weeks that they were willing to try to see whether some of the clients in asia will be able to divert some of the shipments of the, of the, of gas to europe if needs be. so this is quite a remarkable moment for cut our, which has been also using is political influence over the last few years. particular when it comes to being quite a crucial our life for the americas. when it comes to broking, a political settlement enough higher than helping with the evacuation of thousands of hundreds, dozens of thousands of afghans from afghanistan. they have been playing a crucial role when it comes to iran and trying to see whether there might be a political solution to the crisis that the has been going on for quite some time. i think they're using that quietly in a way to further reinvent themselves not only as a key regional player, but as a global player. and i think this explains why joe biden has saying that basically

he was further continued. so can, with the sale to me, but how much of sandy about the need full different full more security and stability in these parts of the welt, ash my number. thank you very much indeed. and just a reminder that of president biden, during this so far side to address to the media at the white house, said that he's notifying congress that you a designate cutter as a major and non nato ally. and the 2 are going to be discussing regional security in issues such as helping people of afghanistan. and of course, as we mentioned, energy supplies there's went up stories to stay with us. avenues continues with me after a stream of getting the mean time, you know, to catch up on our website. it just that is out there dot com. you watch on there by clicking on the black icon by phone. i see a bit ah

ah, i am 70 okay. you watching the stream on today's episode. we mark a one year of military war in me, emma. on february, the 1st 2021. the all b c's control claiming the election one by the national league for democracy was fraudulent. allie found a journalist with me, amal, a year ago today. the day of the crew began to me with a lot of confusion. i was mostly trying to find out what had actually happened, trying to find out who had been detained. and very early on in the day the internet

and the phone signal was cut off and not confusion started to be replaced by fear of who had been detained. what was coming next? looking back on it a year later. it's just incredibly depressing me i'm. i still had a lot of issues, but so much progress disappeared in the blink of an eye. and these politicians, these activists, people that i know personally, are still in prison. the still, many of my friends are still in hiding. people are still missing. we don't even know where they are and the situation is still dire. is there a path back to democracy for me and mar joining us? we have wayne in sin and sins. ah sure, lee, thank you so much for being with us today. i know you're going to help us unpack what happened in the past year. what needs to happen in the next year? when in please mind, who you are. welcome back to the stream. thank you for me and my name and i'm the human rights like this. i've been working on them for many years. so last year the

ticket was very depressing for us. we always appreciate your reporting, st please. while i went and see who you are. welcome back to the thanks very much for me. my name is thin, i am a bernice journalist living in europe i cover about but i'm also the co founder of a storytelling project called the kite tales in the ma get to have you and seen me welcome back to the stream. it's really good to have you back with us, please remind me who you are and what you think. hi, everyone. good for having me here. this is this actually i'm the will, casey coordinator will aggressive to the side correlation hall actually committee for chris. thank you very much. all of you for being on i showed today. and if you are watching on youtube, you can be in a comment section. those comments can be wrapped in today's discussion. put them right here and i will do my best to get them into the program. oh, my goodness. we remember those protest, those brave protest this from a year ago?

how will people who are a me a mar fin mall this one year anniversary? well, you know, the protesters pro democracy forces have been calling for a highland strike. the has been the have been if a couple of highland strikes in the past couple of months that have been very, very successful. but it remains to be seen how things will play out tomorrow because the hunter has threatened businesses and shops that plan to close to, to be part of the silent strike. and they have also threatened arrest with anybody who, you know, planned to be part of it. so i think it remains to be seen whether there will be a silence strike tomorrow. but i think we can still be sure, regardless of whether there's going to be a strike, i think people are still extremely furious about the crew and they are still very, very much in favor of the pro democracy forces. when i see you nodding,

surely i see you nodding as well when you stop fast. yes i, you know, this is a pattern by the military now. i mean, since last year they've been threatening people not to go up on the street to protest. they even told on the state media that they would shoot and kill people if they go out to protest. but you know, our 2 things i want to say is, it's been a year under the military cou, a military dictatorship. but one is the military hasn't been able to consolidate power because of people, courage and determination to get rid of this military on 2nd is yes is depressing, but also we have to acknowledge so much achievement by the people of bernard. you know, in terms of international achievement, in terms of national achievement, we have to acknowledge that. and these courageous people are still front standing up against the nice military. and i have no doubt they will find

a creative way to join, to fall in strike tomorrow. and should make a head yeah, when you say when you are and i who attend or at all in the military to ship, i would say we are also marking and moravian a year of our assistant and a revolution for freedom. we are and save are much like a new nation so so that, that's the spirit that or the people inside bar my that we will be celebrating our assistant, our finance again, all funds to oppressions coming from design and goals that we, they, we stay resist and that's how the coup land find. hunter is not yet not 100 percent implemented yet. so that's a story. so also there will be different strikes happening tomorrow. there are many other defense like comedy generates like comedy for national and pcp calling for a week action. so people have to be like,

be aware of different activities like popping up in different areas that people have joined like naturally, and they always organize in a safe manner. so basically there will be other different colon like rach, right, can pay monkey or like a resistance so. so i really hope to see i'm a different sort of people joining in different manner. not just off my what, yes, so me if you don't mind naturally jumping in very briefly, just say that you know the silence strike. it's just one form. there are so many others, and i also want to just reiterate what things are just said that the crew is not yet complete for all the weapons and the power that the hunter has is still has not been able to control the country. like when in said they had not been able to control, consolidate the power. a report that just came out maybe a week ago or a briefing paper on the resistance forces in the mom found that 200 township out

of 330 on now under some control off the local administration that is aligned with the national unity government so, you know, that shows that even if we're not seeing big mass protests that we used to see, resistance is still happening in so many forms. and it's really important to add, i know, you know, the thing and all about a gas. notice that if you protest, if you malt the anniversary in me, a mall, the hunter will punish it. you will be seen as somebody who's being treasonous and they will be repercussions. so even though that is that threat, people still intend to protest awaiting, i want to show this to our audience and i'm interested in your take care. this is one of the assistance association for political prisoners parentheses, but also known as me a ma. so this is in the past year,

8835 people arrest. they charged a sentence that we know of. 1967 had evaded arrest. so on the run in hiding killed that we know of 1503 sentence 661. what do these statistics tell us about the past year? wait in i think you said it when you repeat it that we know. i think that's a very important phrase because we don't know how many people have being forcefully disappeared in remote areas or an ethnic area. and we don't know how many people have been killed in ethnic areas. so of course, these are the figures that we know and they are in prison. but there are so many other people that we, we are not aware of, and even this more than a 1800 people, many of them we don't know where they're being kept or how their condition is. and

most of them have been horrifically torture. and if you are a female political prison as you go through sexual harassment rate and other sort of harassment just because of your gender. so there are so many human rights violations happening in detention centers, depending on your agenda. if you are l g b t can come from l g b to community you phase out the form of horrific harassment as well as it's very devastating. and you know, most of these political prisoners are young people, their students, they should have been in school. they should have been pursuing their dreams to become doctors and teachers, nurses, future leaders. but now they've been thrown into prison for standing up against the hunter. and it's really depressing. so yeah, in that point i just wanna add like a dis, number 8000. if not, is not yet an update, or one is more than $10000.00 now, within

a year. and just to take note of it, we already have around of my hand with our political prisoner before the 2. and now we has more, more and more light. we could see the increased number of political chris and i left whole year even before an acute of his like as for you increase pressure and weeping or kind of remind me or the politicians and different mission of community center arrest season is coming. because i and doing a panoramic in 2020 the acted as being, saving to friends up in prism ends, like 7 years in prison within a week without a fair trial. and so, and that's with all the election use. you know, i'm doing the time we owe in lakeland and now we are seeing an increase number of political chris and obviously now is there's no you tangible asked let me bring an extra voice into this conversation. i'm going to play this,

this new voice to you thin. he is a came, he's an independent research and analysis analyst, and this is what he told us a few hours ago. have a listen and then respond directly off the back of came thoughts. the john say is facing emacula rising, there is more united and stronger than anything. it is facing the military 1st power in $962.00. there's federal democracy movement includes the loyalist pro democracy support of ng santucci, the ethnic federalists movements that whose people have been the target of decades of ethnic violence and who have been resisting, centralized, state control over 400000 striking civil servants. and extremely impressive gen z youth groups, women's groups and other civil society organizations. so the report, the briefing paper that i quoted just now that said, you know, 200 townships out of 330 and under some resistant forces actually is co written by kim. so he knows what he's talking about, and i totally agree with him. you know,

despite all the devastation and the trauma that i think collective trauma that we've seen in myanmar, there's also been a massive transformation in the society. the country is more inclusive and united than it has ever been. and we are, you know, the national unity government. i would say it's not perfect, but it's the most progressive that we have seen. and there is an understanding. and i hope that if only we are giving a chance, i think we could have a really bright future. we just need to be given that chance for let, let me just open up some of the criticism. some of the push back that has been made from a protest, and i'm going to put this to usually that started off as non violence deliberately. so that is now turned into in some parts of me and me all

a violent resistance to us about that. and what's, what the protest is, what the resistance movement is thinking when they are having to take up arms. do they have to take up arms. so the resist than the 1st resolution. when we launched the revolution resistant has been always men violent and still is because their own only different strides and protests happening across the whole country been not skipping a day. and later on they turn into mainly because the honda being question are using different liter forces, you know, and how to crash this down. and then they, the resistance the strike home and the the have to defend them. so everything the, have the be fine to found with that, you know, the tie or the bag and everything they have in their own community. and then later on,

these people have to join in the already existing different ethnic and revolutionary foods, these revolution and for being with the same thing in the future. on a past 7, for example, study 5, january just yesterday, my 270. and the last 3 of the koran revolution date. so you can see how this system, they. so these are happening to every day in there where they know they are striking that they have created will striking for example, and peters appear in some way for like 15 minutes and then they just disappear like a flash drive kind of thing. so the, these kind of protests already happened you way military is not in place, the organized around 300 people in the, in east religious. and then all the kind of gave a laura when a reason to the really just our wrong thing. so they're not skipping that they the

only thing, some salt from them, you chief wayne and i'm going to show them if he, if, if i may, how soon, what are your perspective on the scope of this spring revolution waiting? i think, and it's been a year and our determination to approve this military is stronger than ever like a said. and also my thing said is that, and no one has stopped from a resisting we are doing in every way possible across the country that you can feel people are coming out to protest in different way. people are resisting in many ways possible. and, you know, people, it's been a year people joined civil disobedience movement and they haven't been paid at all . and they, they are determined to continue that. and they are not paying less 50 bill because the money will go to the military for they are doing all sort of created way to resist that military. so that's why it's been

a year. it doesn't matter how many people they threatened to kill, or how many people they thrown into prison. the military con, confirm, holiday power. you know, the only one they have weapons and the only tactic they have is violence. and that's the only thing they know how to use it against people. whereas all people have intelligence, creativity, courage, and resilience, that the military lack of that the and courage thing for us to take note all as a, i think also just very briefly, you know, there's a lot of talk about violence. and i guess, personally, i would rather that we also win this in a non violent way. but you know, this is a military that shoot and protest us in the head. this is a military that use a car to plow into and protested. we are sitting somewhere safe and we're discussing this, you know, without having to worry about how we sleep at night. my friends, my family, my former colleagues, this is their life day to day immune. my. don't think,

you know, it's very difficult to sit somewhere safe and then judge the decisions that they had to make in order to, to actually survive. can you talk to me to trust in about you make a good point about what people are having to take on and and how they are living. we've done stream episodes about cov, it, emma and the economy, even though, meanwhile, is still able to operate with international allies. the economy is degrading. what is it like for the people that you know who are existing a may and me all right. now, what is that situation? me? the economy is in tatters. you know, people are having to lift through runaway inflation, storing prices. the u. n. d p has said that probably, you know, half of people in mia, mom will probably be living in poverty this year. the u. n. an released

a statement or document in december, say that 14400000 people, that's more than one out of 4 people need humanitarian assistance. i mean, that's how, but we're talking about what i've been talking to, you know, farmers and people in agriculture sector as well. and, you know, again, we focus a lot on conflict and politics and violence. but people who are not even displaced people who are not even in conflict though they are having such hardship just, you know, living just trying to survive. and there up, people that i've been speaking to in the agricultural heartlands. the places where some of the major cropping areas in the and more they're struggling. farming households are having to sell long term assets. you know, would livestock, their food storage in order to survive in order to just be able to eat. you know, that has furious long term consequences for the whole country in terms of

humanitarian needs and the international community. really, we need to see this from the perspective of humanitarian and not just politics. i promise that our international community online that they could be part of this program as well. this is what mark brown says on youtube. i lived in miramar for 8 years until last april because of the qu, the lack of support from the rest of, well, especially the un. and of course, axiom has been appalling. that is, mark's take, but he also wants to bring into our conversation. we talk about me, emma, without talking about him and also asking in special community, what are you doing? this is what we heard earlier from our border community. we really are worrying that military was escalade violence against the ruling, and we are wearing terrible situations. going to happen to the dcf 2020 to an

international community is not due either. nothing to national community should do more support. justice and accountability met at some point in icy details and more universal during dixon case. taking action against military is really important. yet the world has not really acted as in the way that it needs to. there needs to be more political pressure on them yet content including coordinate economic sanctions and recognition of their past crimes of what they did to the ranger as genocide, the us needs to take that official step. there have been some response from the internet community. i big corporations coming out of me and mall. surely tell us about that. is it enough? is it the start of something more? so when we talk about what we can do to show me, am i right to be in the country. we only state to think you can do,

but at least the 1st target. and so i can, if you start the end flows to our home campus and like in post. and they go and also talk to the pension on the military and the businesses. so these are the 2 leasing information. the community can do to help me m, i know down the new team that's happening every day. this is not yet happened. the estimate should be. so today they are some countries like us, you can and can ada, imposing on different individuals. we well comment. why only be the country all the time. what about our neighbors like india, korea, japan, thinkable. where are they doing? so obviously it's the washer to collaborate and it's not only a few countries what already doing already on the supposed to do. we need more people joining in different collaborating action or no for the right to take case.

now we don't see more county joining the case or the un security council passing a resolution has never, never information. who so obviously never, not what the people. all right, so all companies why i was being very specific case. i'm going to just bring them up. so that we can see what's happening. oh, companies are leaving me a mar abraham on youtube, says the only way to save the people of me mall is to increase the economic pressure me, emma. and thus increase the need to actually have the i'm just summarizing, now to, to have the international community. seeing that they can control what the hunter is doing. one more thought. and then i'm going to come to you weighing in. and this thought comes to me, me tant, who told us this idea the terror?

and because you all the military increase every single day. and despite that fact the international government a stay slow and very slow in responding. only issue in statement. and now is the time to step up now is the time to start, the revenue flows and flows to the me, a mom of the tree, especially government like alice, really a sub korea that has not done anything to take this military accountable. now is the time, what thought would you like to leave us with wayne in on the anniversary of the qu a me, emma? what do you want us to be thinking about? well, to festival international community should be standing with people. and 2nd is touching on the point about accountability. the bernice military been committing these atrocities against ethnic nationalities in my country for many, many decades. there is no accountability, there is no justice. so that created

a sense of impunity for the military and genocide of the hinge happen, no accountability whatsoever. so now this is the time for the international community to step up and hold the military accountable for all the atrocities they have committed. otherwise, this cycle of impunity will continue, and bernice people will continue to suffer. so that's what i want to mention. in the i want to turn them into those like at the same time, we really need to chain the narrative as military as one of the political pe, horner, the political stage will be our crime. and i'll be up a tree. we need to hold them accountable. so we need to treat them as such as the are. this is another message for me to may. thank you so much. let me just show you where all of our gas can be found on twitter. so you can be following what's happening and be via their work. this is wayne in and so

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