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Poppy McPherson
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Poppy McPherson
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Special Correspondent @Reuters, Southeast Asia. Bangkok, formerly Yangon, Phnom Penh, London. Part of Pulitzer-winning team, 2019. DMs open
Joined March 2009
- A soldier says “arrest everyone filming”, armed soldiers approach, and the live broadcast is cut off. Footage by 74 Media shows the moments before several journalists were arrested tonight covering a violent crackdown on protests in Kachin state. #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar
00:00 - Supporters of #Myanmar's military confront pro-democracy protesters in downtown #Yangon this morning. #WhatIsHappeninginMyanmar
- MYANMAR JUNTA ORDERS INTERNET PROVIDERS TO SHUT DOWN ALL WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - TELECOMS SOURCES (@Reuters) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- An 11-year-old girl wounded by mortar attacks on a village in Papun district, Karen state, on April 7. More than 24,000 people have been displaced by the continuing assault, according to @FreeBurmaRangrs, which took this photo. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- BREAKING - MYANMAR POLICE DETAIN JAPANESE JOURNALIST AT PROTEST IN YANGON - COLLEAGUE (@Reuters) #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar
- Unbearable images from @Myanmar_Now_Eng of a one-year-old baby shot in the eye with a rubber bullet in #Myanmar today. More than 60 people confirmed killed by the military junta's forces and the death toll is mounting. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- A wounded man in Mogok today tries to crawl away as #Myanmar soldiers continue shooting, in video verified by @Reuters. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
00:00 - Breaking - #Myanmar state TV has announced 19 people have been sentenced to death for killing the associate of an army captain, 17 of them in absentia. These are the first death sentences passed since the coup. @Reuters #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- A little boy injured by air strikes in Karen state weeps as he is treated by a medic. Refugees like him are stranded in the jungle, with little access to humanitarian aid. Thailand won’t allow them in. Footage by @FreeBurmaRangrs. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
00:00 - #Myanmar’s military screened the pictures on the right - young women they had detained, bearing harrowing signs of abuse - on the nightly news today. They fact they felt free to show these images - and wanted to - speaks volumes. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- .@DrSasa22222 told us earlier today ASEAN should not channel any humanitarian aid through the army. It would be an “insult” to invite “murderer-in-chief” Min Aung Hlaing to the upcoming ASEAN summit, he said. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar reuters.com/article/us-mya…
- “The world should not be just watching and doing nothing.” Appeal by international envoy of #Myanmar’s civilian leadership, @DrSasa22222, for countries to work w/ newly announced national unity government to unseat military & restore democracy. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
00:00 - #Myanmar Twitter, if you have direct knowledge of what happened in Hlaing Tharyar yesterday, please get in touch. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
