101 East is honoured to have won 8 awards at this year’s New York Festivals, including three golds for India’s Combat Women Fighters and Myanmar’s Rohingya VJs. Watch these films and more in our playlist: aje.io/101east

An important and meticulous investigation from CNN into a Myanmar military organised militia’s gruesome killings of two captured resistance fighters, and the broader patterns of military violence. edition.cnn.com/2024/03/27/asi…

Great film by Ali Fowle 101 East on #Thai land ’s rampant abuse of criminal defamation. #Thai legislators should immediately decriminalize defamation and protect the right to free expression, and all those affected by these cases should be compensated. The harm is real. #SLAPP

A simple social media post or even a retweet could land you in jail for defamation in Thailand and truth alone is not a defence. Tens of thousands of cases have been filed in the past decade, in what critics say is lawfare used to silence scrutiny. aje.io/slapp
#SLAPP

An important documentary on the stifling impact of the sweeping criminal defamation law in Thailand, where anything negative said about anyone, however true, can result in a criminal charge. youtube.com/watch?v=62_zgO…

Thailand has one of the world’s worst legal landscapes - with a rising number of SLAPP cases lodged against rights defenders. A great @aj101east ep by Ali Fowle and David Boyle

m.youtube.com/watch?v=62_zgO…

#Thailand : “More than 25,000 criminal defamation cases have been filed since 2015.” - Watch “Slapped: Speaking up in Thailand,” a documentary by Ali Fowle for 101 East, featuring women human rights defenders Sutharee Wannasiri, Chutima “Oi” Sidasathian Sor.Rattanamanee Polkla youtu.be/62_zgOhumaE?si…

Are defamation laws being used to strangle scrutiny in Thailand? An important investigation by Ali Fowle and David Boyle filmed by Lee Ali and edited by Andy Mees

My latest film for 101 East investigates whether criminal defamation laws are being used to silence those speaking out about abuse and corruption in Thailand. Thanks to our fab team David Boyle Lee Ali et al.

I have an essay in the excellent Noema Magazine on the past and present of Sikh separatism in India, and the many ways in which Modi engineers the public discourse to create fear around non-existent threats noemamag.com/narendra-modis…

Excellent reporting by ⁦Jonathan Head⁩ on an unexpected impact of the increasing war in Shan state- bringing down Chinese criminal empires on Myanmar’s border. Hope the crackdown ends the lawless, brutal, billion$ casino cities + the suffering of 10000s bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Karenni KNDF forces in front of Loikaw university - their aim now is to take the whole of Loikaw, which would be the first state capital to be lost by the ruling junta - a serious blow.

🔥 Thit Gyi Taw village
☑️ Yesagyo, Magway
☑️ 21.803860, 95.128170
☑️ Two incidents on 10 and 12 June 2022

In the series #MWBurntVillages , Myanmar Witness features satellite imagery that reveals fire destruction in multiple villages throughout the last few years.

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Breaking: Chinese police issue arrest warrants for two key Wa elites, including He Chuntian, Mayor of Mengneng County, Wa Region and Bao Yanban, UWSA former head of Brig 468; award for up to 50K RMB for information leading to arrest ; will MAH’s Kokang cronies be next?

Please read this critical investigation by Dawei Watch on a surge in unregulated gold mining in the Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in southern #Myanmar .

It highlights a pattern my colleagues and I know too well from our coverage of gold mining in Kachin (1/6)
mekongeye.com/2023/10/02/min…

Watch this investigation into the illegal import of teak wood into Europe📽️. Produced by CAPA Presse, The Data Sources documentary has revealed an illegal network of teak wood traders👇

The European Union has forbidden the import of teak wood after the coup in Myanmar in 2021.

Identifying an aircraft that is used in an attack is an important part of turning raw footage into evidence that can be used to hold the perpetrators of human rights abuses to account.

👇Myanmar Witness Aircraft Guide
myanmarwitness.org/aircraft

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Burma

Second major Asian film exposing the criminal pig-butchering (杀猪盘) industry hits the screen: Tainted Love (Killing the parrot) makes its debut in Malaysia on 9/21; meanwhile the global crisis of forced labor criminality, trafficking and scams continues orientaldaily.com.my/news/entertain…

Very excited to have received this sneak preview of a much anticipated book on National Book Lovers day Shibani Mahtani Timothy McLaughlin