🤞this rebels-turned-tour guides project can be saved. Post-revolution, ethnic ex-fighters sharing jungle skills & histories with tourists would be 👏 in #Myanmar. PDF have also absorbed bushcraft that could work in tourism (hopefully minus warring drug factions mentioned here)

Thanks for the invite! I waffled a lot. Main points: In parts of #Myanmar, the issue has shifted from ‘can we remove the military?’ to ‘who fills the vacuum?’. Also, immense challenge ahead for psychosocial support and reintegration of former combatants. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Communities on the streets, standing up to the hate. Much more powerful than the words of any politician. What a relief #StopTheHate

Visited the launch of the new AAPP (Burma) museum today. AAPP provides a vital resource documenting those killed and arrested by the #Myanmar regime since day one of the coup. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar (posted with permission)

In April 2022, I met a wiry American, draped in the ‘Stars and Stripes’, with thin, blondish hair and a zealous gleam in his eyes. Yesterday, it seems he tried to kill Donald #Trump . My piece on our encounter: