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Protests swept Myanmar after military forces overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1. As of March 1, at least 1,152 people have been detained by security forces, including hundreds of civilians, students and activists.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/9AUPf1yhCF
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You may be sick of working from home, but you won’t be returning to the office you remember…
@sarahslo and @fcage have created a game to walk you through some possibilities https://t.co/JqpcoBWZYL https://t.co/f708y4ApX7
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Beautiful graphics about bats and viruses. Not all combinations, but explaining some of the reasons why we see bat borne zoonoses. In part: a numbers game, their ancient evolutionary history, and their lifestyles clashing with ours @PeterDaszak https://t.co/QsszXm5mYQ
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The COVID-19 outbreak started with bats, and many deadly viruses in the past have also originated from bats, including the Ebola outbreaks in Western Africa. But what makes these flying mammals such ideal hosts for disease-causing viruses? https://t.co/Lw36hHmRbp https://t.co/5uvmtxJd8B
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“My father is not a criminal, not a robber. Why are you taking him with guns?”
“Don’t you feel shame?”
“If even a little thing happens to my father, we will crush you into pieces!”
@walone4 @poppymcp @aditibhandari #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
https://t.co/gkPgqetgoq @Reuters
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Reuters Graphic: #Myanmar’s new wave of detainees - #AungSanSuuKyi, politicians, doctors, fortune-teller, 154 members of the government and parliament, 148 members of the Union Election Commission, 84 NLD members, 391 civilians, civil society people.
https://t.co/Vv6BCg3jpc
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Also, to understand the scale and scope of the widening detentions in Myanmar in recent weeks, read this detailed Reuters graphics story by @walone4, @poppymcp and @AditiHBhandari:
https://t.co/pDz1Qqx9h8
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The @aapp_burma was founded by ex-prisoners of the former junta who now find themselves recording a new generation of political detainees. These are some of their stories https://t.co/Z4AvAD8ZKd by @walone4 @poppymcp @AditiHBhandari
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Some were dragged from their homes, hundreds were seized by riot police and soldiers who charged down protests against the coup.
Many are held incommunicado https://t.co/9MkHRvahEQ
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Hard to hold back tears reading this story and watching the gut-wrenching footage of people being detained for no reason.
So many lost years, so many families torn apart. So many shattered dreams, ruined lives. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Myanmar’s new wave of detainees: Since the country’s military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1, overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, security forces have detained more than 1,000 people, hundreds at protests and many more in raids https://t.co/Z4AvAD8ZKd https://t.co/v3SLM59D2p
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What will it be like when we go back to the office?
@ReutersGraphics has simulated some potential challenges. Test it out and let us know how you performed in the comments https://t.co/upmbjkJx71 https://t.co/Z7LALlA8fh
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According to the latest report from the WHO's Joint Mission, the intermediate host which passed the novel #coronavirus from 🦇 bats to🧍humans is still to be identified. Here we explain zoonotic viruses and why bats carry so many of them. #COVID19 https://t.co/b4Sc2fauOU
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🦇 As the @WHO reaches its findings on the zoonotic origins of the coronavirus, @jhjanicki and @SimonScarr explain why bats make such ideal hosts for disease-causing viruses https://t.co/GZSsH79laS
Illustrations by @CatherineTai5 1/7 https://t.co/0Q73AHmgX7
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Bats and the origin of outbreaks https://t.co/p1fxy92Kzm via @Reuters
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Conservation
More than 200 bat species (~15%) in 60 countries are considered threatened with extinction and more than 20 are critically endangered.
In addition, eight bat species have been documented as having gone extinct in the recent past 6/7 https://t.co/i3qwgcFAwR
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Why bats indeed? This stunning graphic story explains why bats make such ideal hosts for disease-causing viruses, such as COVID-19. By @jhjanicki & @SimonScarr Illustrations by @CatherineTai5 https://t.co/dV3Vm87XLU
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