Edith Mirante

3 copies of book "Where the Mithuns Are" with background of Chin textiles, baskets, beads.

16/16. "The Mountain People: An Update on Revolution in Chin State, 2025" + my History Thread links + reports on Chin St. (dating back to 1997) are at: www.projectmaje.org. My new book "Where the Mithuns Are" includes essays about Chin State, order at: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

Myanmar Expels Timor-Leste Diplomat over War Crimes Case On February 13, Myanmar’s military junta ordered the head of Timor-Leste’s embassy in Yangon to leave the country within seven days.

15. Jan. 2026, @chinhumanrights.bsky.social & Myanmar Accountability Project met w. Timor Leste (new ASEAN member) officials, requesting Universal Jurisdiction investigation of crimes against humanity by coup regime forces in Chin State. Investigation opened Feb. '26. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

In India’s Mizoram, programs for Myanmar refugees struggle to survive amid US aid cuts The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly end US support for refugees is dramatically reshaping the humanitarian landscape along the Indo-Myanmar border

14. Chin State refugees in NE India faced funding decreases in 2025. US Govt cancellation of aid programs caused catastrophic loss of funding for refugee health programs. US Govt policy changes also impacted Chin St. refugees approved for US resettlement. myanmar-now.org/en/news/in-i...

Students, disabled woman killed by Myanmar junta airstrikes on schools in Chin State The attacks on two schools in resistance-held Mindat Township killed four civilians and injured more than 20

13. Myanmar coup regime targeted churches, medical facilities & schools in Chin State with aerial bombing during 2025. International aid for air raid warning technology was still lacking, after nearly five years of such attacks.
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Post-Earthquake Escalation of Violence in Chin State

12. Myanmar coup regime's aerial bombing continued to be a severe threat to civilians of Chin State, especially in the south, throughout 2025. www.chinhumanrights.org/post-earthqu...

11. In southern Chin State, Chin Brotherhood held onto territory during 2025, although communities suffered coup regime's aerial bombing. Chin Brotherhood delegation met w. Kachin Independence Army & National Unity Government in Kachin State in July '25. www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/in...

10. Participation in the coup regime's December 28, 2025 sham election was minimal in Hakha & Tedim (only places in state with voting available.) "Silent strike" left streets and businesses, as well as polling stations, deserted on election day. eng.mizzima.com/2025/12/29/2...

9. During August '25, in coup regime occupied Chin State capital Hakha, 40 civilians arrested in retaliatory raids, also an artillery barrage into the town. In October, the Hakha Battalion, a revolutionary group, rescued 15 prisoners from Hakha police. eng.mizzima.com/2025/10/19/2...

Myanmar military seizes key hill position from Chin resistance The Taingen outpost, linking Chin State’s Falam and Tedim towns, had been under Chin resistance control since early 2024

8. Coup regime forces seized strategic Mt. Kennedy early Nov. '25, but PDF-Zoland (Chin Brotherhood) forces took back Mt. Kennedy by late Nov. When it changed hands again, Chin Brotherhood forces retook it again, early Jan. '26. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

In rebel-held Myanmar, civilians flee junta airstrikes and a forced election The BBC goes to a rebel-held part of Myanmar, ahead of a government-mandated election starting this month.

7. With enhanced relations with Russia & China, Myanmar coup regime waged a nationwide military offensive in 2025, aimed at gaining back some territory in advance of national elections it had called for late December, meant to "legitimize" the regime. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chin resistance forces clash after seizing Falam from Myanmar junta The clashes are seen as a setback to ongoing efforts to unify rival coalitions of armed groups operating in Chin State

6. Despite efforts to bring rival Chin Brotherhood and Chinland Council groups together, tensions continued in 2025, with deadly violence in early July near Falam, causing thousands of civilians to flee to Mizoram (NE India) temporarily. myanmar-now.org/en/news/chin...

5. A small international volunteer unit, the Anti-fascist Internationalist Front, participated alongside Chin State forces in the battle of Falam, with training & fighting. Vivid first-hand impressions by AIF member Rachel Ram Len Mawi: aifmyanmar.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...

‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war The country’s drawn-out conflict has seen children recruited as soldiers on all sides. At the age of 18, Anina is a seasoned fighter with a fearsome reputation in her all-male resistance unit

4. A noteworthy account by Lorcan Lovett about frontline warfare during the battle of Falam, Chin State: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Chin Brotherhood takes over last junta base in Chin State town According to a military defector, the capture of Falam makes the junta vulnerable in the Chin State capital, Hakha, as well as in Kalay, Sagaing Region, the site of a Regional Operations Command headq...

3. In April 2025, Myanmar coup regime's forces completely lost control of Falam, a significant Chin State mountain town with important road connections, to Chin Brotherhood revolutionaries, after 5 months of fierce fighting. myanmar-now.org/en/news/chin...

a map showing Chin State (Myanmar) and neighboring India, Bangladesh & Myanmar's Rakhine, Magwe, Sagaing.

khasi pine trees and mountains in Chin State.

2. "The Mountain People" covers Chin State since Project Maje “The Bells of Falam” 2/25. Previous update reports: “The View from Mt. Kennedy” 1/24, “Under the Hornbill Flag” 1/23 & “Hornbills & Powder Horns: Chin State Resists” 10/22. Those reports are at: projectmaje.org/docs.htm

a road in Chin State leading to mountain ridge, low buildings at side. title: The Mountain People: An Update on Revolution in Chin State, 2025

1. This (recent) History Thread is about situation in Chin State, Burma (Myanmar) during 2025, based on my new Project Maje report "The Mountain People: An Update on Revolution in Chin State, 2025" www.projectmaje.org/chin_report_... #WhatsHappeningInChinState 🌄 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿

In Photos: Rohingya Refugees Watch Their World Burn – Again and Again Repeated fires in the refugee camps have become a deadly pattern, leaving already displaced families with nothing.

An outstanding photo essay by @CFWRohimUllah outlining the lived reality of Rohingya life and the daily threats of fires in the refugee camps.

In Photos: Rohingya Refugees Watch Their World Burn – Again and Again @Diplomat_APAC thediplomat.com/2026/02/in-p...

1899 Felix Thioller photo of dark horse and woman in long black coat moving across snow, trees & fence background.

that would be Joy Division,"Ice Age."

3 ER doctors in Myanmar (Burma) in 2020 during COVID pandemic. They wear blue scrubs, hair coverings and masks.

Healthcare professionals led the first resistance to the Feb. 2021 coup. For background on healthcare professionals of Burma (Myanmar), my May 2020 History Thread on another site: x.com/EdithMirante...

People-led Healthcare as Resistance to the Junta’s Crimes Against Care - Progressive Voice Since the military junta’s attempted coup on 1 February 2021, Myanmar has been plunged into a man-made humanitarian and healthcare catastrophe driven by systematic violence, collective punishment, the...

Healthcare efforts in Myanmar (Burma.) @pvamplify.bsky.social describes how Civil Disobedience Movement strikers, revolutionary medics & other healthcare professionals provide crucial services despite coup regime targeting & lack of funding. 🩺
progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2026/02/14/p...

Clive Branson wearing WW2 British Army uniform, with sketchbook. Noreen Branson smiling in plaid shirt. Clive Branson painting of London street march.

studio portrait of Karl Yoneda in dark suit, with Elaine Buchman Black in dress with white collar & ribbon. serious expressions.

For your radical Valentine ❤️: my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" includes 2 of the great 20th Century comrade romances: Clive & Noreen Branson and Karl Yoneda & Elaine Black (+ a reference to George & Mary Oppen.) 💝 🌹 📚 Order from: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

Portland Oregon Indigenous groups in solidarity with Minnesota AIM organizing in the abolish ICE liberate Turtle Island Movement.
DHR PDX Decolonize Heal Resist and American Indigenous Movement Nomads (AIM) direct actions at PDX ICE

a white Victorian 2 story house with a porch and lawn with shrubs.

I stayed in the (former) bank building visible in that still from "Shadow of a Doubt" (it is now a hotel) last summer when I gave a lecture in Sonoma. Here's my photo of the house from the movie.

an array of candles & flowers on table & ledge at Portland ICE facility in 2018, some people in background.

a banner "Kick ICE out of Portland" on a fence next to ICE building, Portland Oregon 2018 & tents along adjacent railway tracks.

Here's a couple of pix of Portland, Oregon's Occupy ICE protest, which took place in Summer 2018. Yes, at the same wretched building from which Federal agents barraged toxic gas at our Labor march (incl. children) on Jan. 31, 2026 & launched gas clouds over the whole neighborhood the next evening.

Defiant beauty of jingle dress dance in Minneapolis. Indigenous resistance also at forefront vs ICE in Portland, OR since last summer (& all the way back to Portland 2018 Occupy Ice.) @cozca.bsky.social & other Indigenous defenders have been arrested by Feds for dancing/ceremonies at Portland ICE.

Against Refugee-ness The crisis I observed was not the crisis being represented. Refugee-ness is a visual grammar: unwritten rules insisting refugees look a certain way to be recognized. It edits people into narrow roles:...

New piece in THROAT on how the Rohingya have been seen and mis-seen since 2017. I look at the visual grammar of “refugee-ness,” how images shape public perception and policy, and why Rohingya photographers matter.

www.throat.art/feature/agai...

Clive Branson wearing WW2 British Army uniform, with sketchbook. Noreen Branson smiling in plaid shirt. Clive Branson painting of London street march.

studio portrait of Karl Yoneda in dark suit, with Elaine Buchman Black in dress with white collar & ribbon. serious expressions.

For your radical Valentine ❤️: my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" includes 2 of the great 20th Century comrade romances: Clive & Noreen Branson and Karl Yoneda & Elaine Black (+ a reference to George & Mary Oppen.) 💝 🌹 📚 Order from: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

5 years after Feb. 1, 2021 Myanmar coup, unrelenting revolution vs coup regime continues throughout Burma (Myanmar.) People undaunted, in cities, forests, fields. Effective armed struggle & Civil Disobedience Movement are united to overcome oppression. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿

crowd of people with signs in front of ICE building (at center) with white smoke.

Thousands marched against ICE/fascism Jan. 31 '26 Portland, Oregon (the rainy Portland) endorsed & led by 20 labor unions. Peaceful afternoon crowd incl. children, met with massive clouds of toxic gas unleashed by Fed agents at ICE facility. Solidarity with Minnesota and Maine (the snowy Portland.)

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis