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Myanmar junta intimidates aid groups in effort to hide hunger crisis reuters.com/investigates/s… via @SpecialReports

“[The humanitarian sector] has become very much professionalized! It has become an industry, and I think it has lost its soul..." Adelina Kamal, a former ASEAN insider, on re-examining its post-coup Burma policy. insightmyanmar.org/complete-shows…

Adelina Kamal "...Right now, it has become such a big industry, that is more of ‘survival of the fittest,’ and trying to make sure to prove to the donors that they can deliver. It is more donor-centric than affected-population-centric!"

Adelina Kamal "...It's not based on the needs of the population, but on what the donors want.”

To listen more: odi.org/en/events/eart…

Spoke to CNN Helen Regan that the international community risks being deceived into the military’s stage performance, where elections would be an illusion of democratic transition, and aid negotiation with the devil without red lines is basically complicity edition.cnn.com/2025/05/02/asi…

"Some argue that engagement w/ the junta is necessary to obtain access," writes Adelina Kamal But there is a difference between negotiating for humanitarian entry w/ clear red lines & letting the junta rewrite the rules of engagement...that's complicity" irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-…

"...military junta should not be treated as the sole gatekeeper for aid, recovery or coordination. Doing so falsely presents the junta as a stabilizing force, when in fact it cont. to bomb, starve & displace its own population." must read by Adelina Kamal bit.ly/42Q8D7a

In my piece for The Irrawaddy (Eng), I unpack how disaster response after the Sagaing quake became a tool of deception, why engagement without red lines is complicity & what it takes to walk off the stage to stand with the people building from the ground up👇 irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-…

My article for The Irrawaddy (Eng) "Inside the Myanmar Junta’s Post-Earthquake Theatre of Control” has been published in Burmese👇 Following the Sagaing earthquake, the junta has exhibited a form of deception, projecting superficial openness to aid while tightly controlling the flow