The Spring Revolution is a year old today. Onward, Jamie
Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity sounds like an apt description of these acts. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/nug-accuses-myanmar-junta-of-committing-crimes-against-humanity.html Jamie
Speculation
The mass media is on to the number of Covid deaths in Myanmar. Case counts (remember HIV?) give only a partial picture so the total number of cases and deaths is undoubtedly much higher. Since there is no method to study excess mortality in the country, we will never know the ‘true’ number of deaths […]
Prescriptions
Detainees’ testimonies are important in documenting torture. Prescriptions not so much. https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/fresh-evidence-emerges-of-brutal-torture-of-prisoners-inside-mandalay-palace Jamie
client satisfaction
A paper on methadone client satisfaction in Myanmar. Jamie https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13011-021-00429-z
Junta jabs
Information on Covid19 vaccination in Myanmar is hard to come by apart from reports of how many new case detections and jabs given by the military junta. These tell us little. On the other hand, this piece by John Liu of Myanmar Now tells us much. Why people in Myanmar don’t want the junta’s jabs […]
attempt
What do you think of this attempt at solidarity with health care providers in Myanmar? Jamie https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2022/1/4/Myanmar-doctors-coup-civil-disobedience-ethics-neutrality
"We had hopes for the future, and suddenly we lost that future."
“We had hopes for the future, and suddenly we lost that future.” Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar coup: The doctors and nurses defying the military Jonathan Head BBC 7 January 2022 A significant proportion of healthcare in Myanmar is now being delivered outside state hospitals, by doctors and nurses who oppose the military and are loyal to […]
Prison protests
News of prison protests leaks out slowly. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Beaten ‘Silent Strike’ detainees in Yangon’s Insein Prison fail to get medical treatment Mizzima 16 December 2021 Wai Hin Soe, a political prisoner who protested during the “Silent Strike” on December 10 in the notorious Insein Prison, is one of a number of tortured detainees who […]
Eleven Media has decided
It is clear that Eleven Media ownership and management has decided to tow the line and spew out information fed to them by the military junta. It is valuable to know what the junta is saying to contradict it. Does Myanmar have the facilities to make vaccines? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar in collaboration with China to […]
HIV services
Precoup research on HIV services for key populations. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Optimizing HIV Services for Key Populations in Public-Sector Clinics in Myanmar Ansley Lemons-Lyn1,* Khin N. Chan3 , William Reidy2,*, Wah Wah Myint3, , Elaine Abrams2, Zaw Zaw Aung4 Trista Bingham1, Mitesh Desai5 , Irene Benech1, , Ei Ei Khin5, Tharaphi Lin3, Halli Olsen2, Htun Nyunt […]
Webspace?
Ko Aung Kyaw demonstrated tremendous courage in the face of torture & death at the hands of the Myanmar junta. Is there a webspace where others who have been detained can safely upload their personal stories of detention or torture or both? https://nytimes.com/2021/12/17/world/asia/myanmar-journalist-kyaw-torture.html?smid=tw-share Jamie

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