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German Solidarity Myanmar
We are GSM - an association whose members mainly live in Germany and support a free, democratic and inclusive Myanmar.
PLEASE NOTE: Our english website is currently ongoing - not all content is translated, yet!
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Since the military coup, we have been collecting, compiling and publishing current and important information and events from Myanmar on a weekly basis.
These Status Updates are only available in German!
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Events
"Kyaw Min Hsaing!" (English subtitles) -Myanmar music documentary by Ishitani Takashi
Sat. 27, Sun. 28 April, 2024
ZEMIN BERLIN (Urbanstraße 3, 10961 Berlin, Germany)
13:30 Open
14:00 - 15:30 Listen & Talk - Encounters with various music of Southeast Asian Countries
16:00 - 18:00 Film screening "Kyaw Min Hsaing!"
"Free Spring"
(DE) „Die Fotoausstellung „Free Spring“ lädt euch ein, in die Welt globaler Freiheitsbewegungen einzutauchen, die oft von westlichen Medien übersehen wird. Erlebt durch die Perspektive des Fotografen Caspar Ermert (23) und der niederländischen Fotografin Daphne Wesdorp (25) die Vereinigung der kurdischen Bewegung in Rojava, Nord- und Ostsyrien, sowie der Anti-Regime- Kämpfer/-innen in den Dschungeln im Osten Myanmars. Sowohl in Rojava als auch Myanmar teilen kurdische und Anti-Junta Aktivist/-innen ein gemeinsames Anliegen: den Kampf gegen autoritäre Regime, die Förderung demokratischer Werte und die Befürwortung der Geschlechtergleichstellung. Dennoch bleiben ihre Kämpfe oft unbeachtet von der Weltöffentlichkeit. Begleitet uns in Düsseldorf, wo wir versuchen, ein Licht auf diese Graswurzelrevolutionen zu werfen.“
(EN) „The photo exhibition „Free Spring“ invites you to delve into the world of global armed freedom movements, often overshadowed by Western media. Witness the unification of Kurdish forces in Rojava, northern and eastern Syria, and anti-regime fighters in the jungles of eastern Myanmar through the lens of German photographer Caspar Ermert (23) and Dutch photographer Daphne Wesdrop (25).
In both Rojava and Myanmar, kurdish fighters and anti-junta activists share a common cause: challenging authoritarian regimes, championing democratic values, and advocating for gender equality. Yet their struggles often escape global attention.
Join us in Düsseldorf as we seek to shed light on these profound grassroots revolutions.“ //
Künstlergespräch am 9.5.um 18 Uhr
Finissage am 15.05.202 um 18 Uhr
mit Caspar Ermert & Daphne Wesdorp
Öffnungszeiten:
Do – Di. 09.05.-14.05., 15 bis 19 Uhr
On 01.02.2021, the military in Myanmar staged a coup. It occupied the parliament and prevented the newly elected government from holding its inaugural session. High-ranking government politicians and other leaders and activists were arrested and their communication with the outside world was cut off. The Myanmar public reacted immediately. With the help of social media, much of civil society turned out to protest on the streets of the cities. Meanwhile, female employees of the Ministry of Health formed the General Strike Movement of Civil Disobedience (CDM), which brought the country to a standstill.
A wide range of creative, colourful forms of protest came together in the protests of the first weeks after the coup. But the military selectively escalated and is extremely brutal against the demonstrators.
On 9 February, Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing was shot dead during protests in the capital Naypyidaw and became the first fatality of the coup. Since then, the military and police have increasingly used violence against protesters and the population: people are randomly executed with targeted shots to the head, armed "security forces" storm citizens' homes at night and spread terror. Thousands have been arrested: while some are under house arrest, it is unclear where many of those arrested are being held and whether they are still alive. On 27 March alone, the official military holiday, over 100 people were cruelly and arbitrarily murdered. The situation is also escalating in the border areas. Armed conflicts with armed groups are flaring up again. The country is on the brink of civil war.
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