Territorial 'control' is an awful way of conceptualising ways dif. armed groups are active in Myanmar: how they are present in areas, local nuances of everyday conflict & mediation btw. groups. Result is: maps of control, gov. etc mostly of limited use & often just simply wrong

“We know that we are preparing to retake areas that were lost after the war with the TNLA,” said a woman forced to join the RCSS.

“We’re now living in fear of whether we will be recruited by the military regime, the RCSS or some other ethnic armed group,” said a young Shan man.

JUST IN: Thai Senate passes Marriage Equality Bill in its 1st reading, as it now goes into another vetting committee for 60 days. It follows Parliament's lead last week as #Thailand inches closer to legalizing same-sex marriage, a first in Southeast Asia. #LGBTQ #สมรมเท่าเทียม

A checklist on where we are with the same-sex marriage legalization in #Thailand :

✅ Parliament
✅ Senate 1st reading
▶️ Senate vetting committee (<60 days)
▶️ Senate 2nd and 3rd reading (no later than July)
▶️ Royal Assent & Promulgation in the Royal Gazette
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A staggering 2.8m people in Myanmar are internally displaced and countless more have fled the country. Tonight (April 1) we will screen four short films with powerful insights into the IDP (and refugee) crisis and hear from the directors afterwards. fccthai.com/events/363

KNU Statement Regarding the Royal Thai Government's Humanitarian Aid Delivery. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

I was lucky to have an early peek of this book by ex Frontier colleague Clare Hammond and it's brilliant. Framed as an offbeat travelogue, but at heart an expose of the cruelty and corruption of military rule and an argument for why Myanmar deserves better.
penguin.co.uk/books/455020/o…

Funny spin here. ASEAN has called for a “Myanmar-owned and led solution” since shortly after the coup, and invited lower ranking reps to ASEAN meetings ever since it started excluding senior officials. But regime propaganda frames these as new developments and big wins

In the state of Kayah, a patchwork of anti-regime forces in Myanmar has cooperated to seize territory with surprising success, Andrew Nachemson reports. buff.ly/4bSJJG6

(1/2) Police Senior Sergeant Major Serichai Sukmak is popular in Nakhon Sawan province. He serves as tourist police while on duty, & when off duty, she competes at local beauty pageants, representing tourist police & donating award money to charities. #Thailand #lgbtqia #police