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SUMMARY:Photo Exhibition "Endless Escape: Fleeing Myanmar to Thailand”
DESCRIPTION:Since the coup d’état led by General Min Aung Hlaing in February 2021\, many have been displaced within Myanmar and across borders. Hostilities and armed conflict in Myanmar\, especially Chin State\, Sagaing and Magway Regions in northwestern; Karen and Karenni (Kayah) States in southeast\, have forced a considerable number of people to flee. According to the UN\, in a year and half at least 986\,000 people have been newly displaced internally\, adding to the 370\,000 who had previously left their homes. An additional 47\,200 are estimated to have crossed over to neighboring countries or settled along the border. \nAs of February 2022\, the Thai government estimated that 17\,000 Myanmar refugees had crossed into Thailand. These can be broadly defined into two groups: internally displaced villagers in bordering states seeking temporary refuge due to intensified conflict; and CDM protestors and high-profile individuals seeking longer-term refuge\, whether in Thailand or third countries. The photo exhibition “Endless Escape: Fleeing Myanmar to Thailand” to be held by SEA Junction in collaboration with Asia Democracy Network at BACC (Curved Wall\, 4th floor) focuses on the first group. Aung Naing Soe\, Visual Rebellion\, Yan Naing Aung and Zin Koko capture the cross-over into Thailand and the settling along the 1500 km porous borders when fighting and airstrikes became particularly intense such as in December 2021 and March 2022. \nFew photos also show Mae La\, the largest refugee camp of the nine along the Thai-Myanmar border that was established in 1984 to remind us of the “endless escape” of Myanmar people from violence and the plight of new generations growing up in camps excluded from the wider society. \nRealizing this hopefully encourage us to do more to sustain a democratic Myanmar and to integrate displaced peoples and refugees in our midst. On the short term the extensive humanitarian needs of people in temporary settlements along the border including access to safe drinking water\, medicine\, and sanitation facilities ought to be met. \nThe exhibition will open on 4 October\, but be officially launched on 8 October\, 5.00-6.30 pm at SEA Junction to allow most of the photographers to attend. More details on the agenda will be announced soon. \n  \n \nPhotographers: \nAung Naing Soe\, a Yangon born multimedia freelancer who is now primarily working as a documentary producer and photojournalist for different international outlets. He initially started working as a fixer for foreign correspondent since 2012\, and he was one of the five finalists of 2017 Global News Fixer Awards at Kurt Shock Memorial Fund. He received Hubert Humphrey Fellowship of Media and Communication at Arizona State University where he studied for a year and worked for the US based media organizations including Vice News. He returned back home in the late 2020 to cover the General Election of Myanmar. Unprecedentedly\, he eye-witnessed the Myanmar military coup in 2021 that he covered on the ground until April 2021. Since then\, he is based abroad and covers Myanmar stories along the border and remotely. His works have been published in Vice News\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, etc. For more info\, see www.aungnaingsoe.com. \nYan Naing Aung is a freelance photojournalist in Yangon\, Myanmar\, covering Burma Coup\, the Covid-19 crisis\, General Election 2020\, current affairs\, and politics. Currently exiled in Thailand. He has done work as a photojournalist for Nikkei Asia Review\, AP Images\, Anadolu Images\, Transcontinental Times\, Vice\, DW and others; and as a videographer for some foreign TV channels Initially\, he started his carrier as a fixer\, journalist\, and photographer. \nVisual Rebellion is a collective for Burmese journalists\, photographers\, filmmakers and artists founded in the aftermath of the February 1st\, 2021 coup d’État. As a war on information and ideology is raging in the country\, the aim is to provide Burmese creators with the necessary resources to keep producing high-value verified content on what is happening in and about Myanmar. Based in Thailand and Myanmar\, members of the team produce features\, documentaries and research reports from the ground as well as photo-exhibitions. For this exhibition pictures were taken by Laure Siegel (Mae La Camp and informal settlements along the river) Thomas Lynn and a single photo of Mae La Camp by Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images. For more info\, see https://visualrebellion.org/. \nZin Koko is a freelance photographer\, currently based in Thailand. His work has been published in local news and international outlets such as Reuters\, Vice and others. He is also a filmmaker and open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigator. \nOrganizers: \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions- from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on twitter and Instagram @seajunction \nAsia Democracy Network (ADN) is active in more than 40 countries in Asia. Our core values are to promote and practice the principles of democracy through the development of inclusive governance\, advancement of human rights\, equality and inclusivity\, prevention of discrimination\, human security\, promotion of free\, fair and meaningful elections\, democracy education\, & press freedom and responsibility. For more information\, see https://adnasia.org/. \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/photo-exhibition-endless-escape-fleeing-myanmar-to-thailand/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, 4th floor\, BACC
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SUMMARY:25th #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates
DESCRIPTION:On 5 November 2022 at 7-8 pm (Bangkok Time)\, SEA Junction in collaboration with Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) will hold the 25th #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates. This update series was started soon after the coup d’état in Myanmar with the aim to contribute to a greater understanding of the crisis situation there for informed action in support of the democratic movement in the country and beyond. \nSince February 2021\, Myanmar has been in turmoil as the Myanmar Army\, known as Tatmadaw\, detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint following a general election which Suu Kyi’s NLD party won by a landslide. The coup by General Min Aung Hlaing brought an end to a decade of semi-democratic rule and returned full power to the military. Courageously\, the population has been resisting and demanding the release of the imprisoned leaders and restoration of the democratic rule and the National Unity Government (NUG) has been formed by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)\, a group of elected lawmakers and members of parliament ousted in the coup. Economic collapse amid escalating conflict is making of Myanmar a failed state\, with many leaving the country in search of refuge and opportunities. The global community has overall condemned the coup and the military abuses\, but concerted diplomatic interventions are still too bland. After more than one year of the coup\, ASEAN has been excluding Tatmadaw representatives from their summits\, but still fails to recognize NUG as the legitimate representative of Myanmar. While the future of the country is in the hands of its people\, international and regional bodies ought to isolate the military junta\, ban arms\, embargo business by the militaries and their cronies\, address gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and provide humanitarian relief to the population. \nThe updates are meant to be short informal dialogues with a speaker who provides an analysis of the latest events in the preceding two weeks for about 20 minutes before the moderator\, SEA Junction’s Founder and Director Rosalia Sciortino\, opens the floor for questions and answers. Initially the updates were held bi-weekly and lasted from March 2021 to March 2022 with speakers Aung Zaw\, Founder and Director Irrawaddy; Khin Ohmar\, a well-known Peace and Security Advocate; Debbie Stothard\, an active promoter of human rights in Burma and the ASEAN regions; and May Zin Thaw\, the founder of a local think tank institute Researchers’ Republic. After few months of break to evaluate the series\, we feel there is still an urgent need to keep Myanmar on the public agenda in the midst of many other global worries as the situation continues to worsen in the country. The now-monthly updates are going to restart with one of our previous resource persons Khin Ohmar who has been much appreciated by the public for her comprehensive reviews of the evolving situation. \nTo participate\, turn in for the monthly update planned for 5 November 2022 at 7-8 pm (Bangkok Time) via Zoom (Link: http://bit.ly/Zoom-SEAJunction) and Facebook Live on our page: SEA Junction. \nSpeaker Profile: \nKhin Ohmar is an experienced peace and security advocate from Myanmar. For the past 30 years\, she has worked with fellow Burmese democracy activists as well as with ethnic women and youth from conflict-affected areas in Myanmar\, including Kachin\, Karen\, Lahu and Rohingya. In 2008\, Ms. Ohmar won the Anna Lindh Prize\, awarded annually to a woman or young person with “the courage to fight indifference\, prejudice\, oppression and injustices in order to promote a good life for all people in an environment marked by respect for human rights.” She also won the 2008 Vital Voices Global Leadership Award for Human Rights\, which she shared with Shan Women’s Action Network activist Charm Tong and the Young Women’s Peace Award (Democracy Today) in 2018. \n \nOrganizers: \nSEA Junction \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions\, from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information\, see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @seajunction \nAsia Justice and Rights (AJAR) \nAJAR is a non-profit organization\, based in Jakarta\, Indonesia\, whose aim is to contribute to the strengthening of human rights and the alleviation of entrenched impunity in the Asia-Pacific region. Its work focuses on countries involved in transition from a context of mass human rights violations to democracy\, where it strives to build cultures based on accountability\, justice and a willingness to learn from the root causes of mass human rights violations to help prevent the recurrence of state-sanctioned human rights violations. For more information\, see www.asia-ajar.org. \n
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