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Taufiq E Faruque
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Political Science PhD Student at CU Boulder
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The lessons of the 1974 famine
People did not talk about the famine because it was deemed acutely politically ‘sensitive’. Sheikh Hasina did not look kindly on the inglorious topic
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December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?

I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...

Some takeaways🧵1/8
Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Spring 2025 issue preview!

J. Mearsheimer < war & international politics> @stephenwalt.bsky.social
Zach Burdette
N. Saiya & S. Manchanda
@doncasler.bsky.social & T. Jost

@intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Then lastly two pieces regarding Myanmar's labor movement. 1st from @pvamplify.bsky.social "Myanmar’s Labor Movement Remains Defiant"
progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2025/05/13/m...

then to prove the point news that Workers at Adidas Factory in Myanmar went on Strike for Living Wage came out
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Workers at Adidas Factory in Myanmar Strike for Living Wage
Paid a slave wage for making trainers for global brands and ignored by the authorities, workers at Taiwanese company Tsang Yih in Yangon decided to take matters into their own hands.
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May 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM