Edith Mirante
@edithmirante.bsky.social
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Author, activist, artist, adventurer. "The Wind in the Bamboo" & 2 Burma books. Founded Project Maje in 1986 (Burma human rights & environmental info.) History Threads. projectmaje.org
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My new photo essay for wondrous nature journal @darkmtn is about an annual fire ritual celebrated amid the environmental challenges facing Homer, a fishing town on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. dark-mountain.net/on-an-alaska...
On an Alaskan Beach, a Basket Burned - Dark Mountain
A photo series from Edith Mirante documenting a fiery ritual that takes place every year in Alaska, North American's largest wilderness area
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Two drivers arrested after nine endangered animals found at checkpoint near Kachin-China border

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23/23. Links to my previous Burma History Threads & reports are at: www.projectmaje.org
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22. China's state-owned China South Industries reportedly facilitates bomb manufacture for Myanmar Air Force. Anti-coup resistance in Myanmar & international supporters continue to call for #SanctionAviationFuel ban on fuel exports to Myanmar coup regime. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/f...
‘Factory of Death’: Report Links Chinese Firms to Myanmar Junta’s Bomb Production
Former UN experts say China South and its subsidiaries train junta personnel and supply components and technology for aerial bombs used in strikes on civilians.
www.irrawaddy.com
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21. Sept. 2025 report by @fortifyrights.bsky.social documents Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on civilians in Kachin & Karenni St.s, shows MAF command structure responsible, calls on UN "to impose a global embargo on jet fuel & arms to the Myanmar military junta." www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2025...
U.N. Member States: Impose Jet Fuel and Weapons Embargo on Myanmar Military Junta - Fortify Rights
New report names 22 junta commanders linked to deadly airstrikes on civilians
www.fortifyrights.org
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20. Sept. '25 airstrikes in Mandalay Region reportedly killed 10 people. Large casualty events specifically mentioned in this Thread are only part of this story, there have been hundreds of other Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on civilians 2021-25. myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
Junta airstrikes kill 10 in Mandalay Region, including children and monks
Warplanes bombed villages, monasteries, and homes over two days, leaving families displaced and entire communities reeling
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19. Sept. 12, 2025, Myanmar Air Force bombed 2 high schools in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine St., killing est. 20 civilians (students.) International condemnation of such attacks by UN agencies & governments appears without actual consequences for the regime. www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar...
Rakhine School Massacre Met With Chorus of Condemnation
Rakhine Rebels and UNICEF blast overnight junta air raid on two private schools that killed 20 youngsters last week.
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17. Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on civilians increased in 2025, including on shelters after March earthquake. May '25, Myanmar Air Force bombed a school in Depayin, Sagaing Region with ("widely banned") cluster bombs, killing 22 students & 2 teachers. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/d...
Death Toll From Myanmar Junta Airstrike on School Rises to 24
The junta used widely banned cluster munitions to strike a Sagaing Region school, killing 22 children aged between seven and 16 and two teachers.
www.irrawaddy.com
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16. Coup regime's Myanmar Air Force inflicts horrendous civilian casualties but shows limited effectiveness vs. usually mobile/concealed revolutionary soldiers. An exception was April '25 bombing of a Kachin Independence Army training camp, est. 36 killed. kachinnews.com/2025/04/01/j...
Junta Airstrike Kills Nearly 40 Trainees at KIA Camp Amid Crisis
Nearly 40 young people were killed when Myanmar’s military junta launched an airstrike on a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) training camp in Mohnyin District, Kachin State, even as the country grapples...
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15. Some revolutionary forces have attacked Myanmar Air Force bases, homes of MAF pilots & aviation fuel supply routes. Despite very limited anti-aircraft capability, anti-coup fighters have reportedly shot down or damaged MAF helicopters & even jets. www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-aga...
Thirteen Myanmar junta aircraft shot down since coup
The Irrawaddy has compiled details of the 13 confirmed junta aircraft crashes since the 2021 coup.
www.irrawaddy.com
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13. Widespread use of air strikes on civilian targets by Myanmar coup regime & lack of air raid warning technology in Myanmar has necessitated crucial education about air raid survival, building air raid bunkers & Unexploded Ordnance safety. myanmar-now.org/en/news/as-m...
As Myanmar’s junta rains destruction on civilians, locals learn how to defend themselves
In resistance strongholds, defence systems strive to save the lives of those targeted by the regime’s deadly aerial assaults
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12. Schools deliberately targeted by MAF. Nov. 2024, RFA reported "Junta forces have conducted nearly 200 air strikes on schools across Myanmar since the military seized power." In many regions schoolchildren seek shelter in dugouts & caves for classes. www.rfa.org/english/myan...
Nearly 200 schools in Myanmar hit by junta air strikes since military coup
The regime often claims that the buildings house resistance fighters.
www.rfa.org
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10. April 2023 Myanmar Air Force used thermobaric bombing to kill est. 160 people at an opposition civil society gathering in Sagaing Region. Oct. '23 an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Kachin St. was bombed by Myanmar Air Force, with 28 killed. www.hrw.org/news/2023/10...
Myanmar: Airstrike on Village an Apparent War Crime
The Myanmar military attacked a village hosting hundreds of displaced civilians in Kachin State on October 9, 2023, killing 28 civilians, including 11 children, committing an apparent war crime, Human...
www.hrw.org
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8. Myanmar Air Force bombing/strafing civilian targets like schools, churches, Internally Displaced Persons camps, continued in 2022, incl in Karen (Kayin), Karenni (Kayah), Chin St., Sagaing & Magwe. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/n...
Nearly 3,000 Civilians Flee Myanmar Regime's Aerial Bombing in Sagaing
Three people found dead after regime troops raided and burned Maekone village in Wetlet Township.
www.irrawaddy.com
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6. 2010s: Myanmar Air Force also used airstrikes in Shan St. incl. Kokang. Myanmar attack helicopters used in 2016-17 N. Rakhine St. genocidal campaign against Rohingyas. Conflict w. Arakan Army in Rakhine St. included helicopter attacks on civilians. www.rfa.org/english/news...
Myanmar Army Helicopter Attack Kills at Least 10 Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State
The airstrike hit a group of Rohingya collecting bamboo amid army hostilities with a Rakhine ethnic army.
www.rfa.org
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5. As war w. Kachin Independence Army resumed 2011, Myanmar Air Force (MAF) deployed helicopters & fixed wing aircraft. Despite very limited antiaircraft weapons KIA sometimes damaged/downed MAF aircraft. My '13 Project Maje report on Kachin St. air war: projectmaje.org/airwar.htm
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4. Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar from 1962, regime Air Force was poorly equipped until 1990s upgrade: F7 jets, other aircraft from China + helicopters from Russia & Belarus. In recent years Myanmar Air Force bought Russian MiG-29, Yak-130 & Su-30 jets. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/r...
Russia Completes Delivery of Warplanes to Embattled Myanmar Junta
Last of six Su-30 fighter jets purchased under a $400m contract commissioned into service at Meiktila Air Base in Mandalay.
www.irrawaddy.com
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3. Aerial bombardment/strafing in Burma began during World War 2. As Japan invaded, Japanese bombers attacked Rangoon, Arakan, other targets. 1942-45 British RAF & US 10th Air Force bombed bridges, roads, railways, supply depots.
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1. This (recent) History Thread is about Air Attacks in Myanmar (Burma.) Since Feb. 2021 coup, military regime has constantly deployed bombing & strafing by jet & helicopter, routinely against civilian targets. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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20/20. Sources incl. Michael Charney 2004; Jacob Shell '19 "Giants" book + Journal of Burma Studies '21. Links to my previous Burma History Threads (incl. on Wildlife & Logging) & reports are at: www.projectmaje.org