Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Fallon told local media that after the crash, she believed the truck was carrying cats. However, when she approached the cages, a monkey appeared and hissed at her.
“What a day I try to help out at a[n] accident seen was told there were cats in the crates. So I [go] over to pet them [only] To find out it’s monkeys. Then I noticed that’s there 3 in each and [one] was completely broken the other was half broken,” Fallon wrote. “So I knew 4 got away. So come home go to bed. My aunt runs into New[s] crew [and] was ask[ed] to do [an] interview. Then find out not to get close to the monkey.”
She continued, “Well tried to pet one, I touch the [crates] and walk in poop. Then was told to met police at the scene. To talk about exposure. News crew was the[re]. I thought they were [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] so I to them. End up doing interviews. Talk to police and a lady with CDC. I’m will getting a letter. I’m very low risk for I don’t know what yet.”
Later, she wrote that she has “symptoms” that are like “covid symptoms. Like seriously. A day from hell.”
Fallon told PAHomepage that she had an open cut on her hand and also developed pink-eye-like symptoms. She went to the emergency room at Geisinger Danville
“Because the monkey did hiss at me and there were feces around, and I did have an open cut, they just want to be precautious,” said Fallon, adding that she will be on preventative medicine for two weeks.
Fallon told WNEP-TV that she was contacted Saturday by the CDC and was told to monitor herself for any unusual symptoms. A letter from the CDC she shared with the outlet said that “the surviving monkeys will be quarantined and will be monitored for infectious diseases for at least 31 days before their release.”
Over the weekend, activist group PETA issued a press release—with a headline that blared, “The Monkey Crash Could Release Disease”—saying Fallon “got an eyeful of monkey saliva that has caused a reaction. She’s now on antiviral drugs and medication to protect against rabies.”
However, PETA said it fears other people in the area could have been exposed.
“Feces and urine from the terrified monkeys were reportedly smeared across the highway as crates—that weren’t strapped in as required—tumbled from the truck. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be scrambling to ensure that numerous other people who were at the scene aren’t in danger,” the group said.
Pennsylvania State Police told PennLive that several monkeys escaped but were later captured. Three were euthanized, CDC officials told the outlet.
They were among about 100 cynomolgus macaques that were being transported in a trailer near Danville that became unhitched after 3 p.m. on Jan 21, officials said.
A day later, on 22 January, police had urged people not to look for or capture a monkey in the area. Troopers wrote on Twitter: “Anyone who sees or locates the monkey is asked not to approach, attempt to catch, or come in contact with the monkey. Please call 911 immediately.”
Trooper Lauren Lesher told the Associated Press that officials were concerned “due to it not being a domesticated animal and them being in an unknown territory,” and “it is hard to say how they would react to a human approaching them.”
Troopers told PennLive that the truck carrying the monkeys had collided with a dump truck on Route 54 at the Interstate 80 interchange.
The Epoch Times has contacted her for additional comment.
News (4) to (6) / Reporter : Han Rui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/01/25/a103330297.html
Anyone who closes a business or shop for a day or who claps in support of the strike could face charges carrying punishment of up to life imprisonment, according to an announcement released by the military regime on Tuesday.
The warning is an attempt to prevent the protest after the previous silent strikes saw the whole nation of over 54 million people staying out of sight for the day, with even roadside vendors who need to earn money daily refusing to open their businesses. That was a major embarrassment for the junta, which insists that ‘normalcy’ is returning to the country.
The upcoming silent strike will be the third such protest. The first was held on 24 March 2021 and the second on 10 December 2021. In response to the last strike, junta forces smashed up shops that were closed and prevented some store owners from re-opening their shops for days afterwards.
Anti-regime groups nationwide have invited the general public to join the February 1 strike by remaining indoors from 10 am to 4 pm. At 4 pm, the strike will end with communal clapping.
The silent strike has been named, “Let’s fight for the way home” as a vow for the people to regain power and for the people who have had to flee since the coup to be able to return to their homes this year with a victory.
In the junta’s Tuesday’s announcement, the regime said that the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the National Unity Government and their subordinates, which the junta has declared to be “terrorist groups”, are inciting people to join the silent strike “to disrupt state stability and intimidate the public”.
The announcement stated that people who join the protest or who share information about it would be prosecuted under existing laws, including charges of assisting terrorist groups under the Counter-Terrorism Law, as well as other offences under the Penal Code and the Electronic Transactions Act.
On Tuesday night, junta forces also told residents in some areas of Mandalay and Yangon not to participate in the strike or they would be prosecuted.
Responding to the regime’s warnings, Tayzar San, a prominent protest leader from Mandalay, wrote on his Facebook: “It is clear that the terrorist regime is quite shocked by the unity and collective strength of our people. And so they will try various way to suppress the peoples’ all out anti-regime movement”.
“’Freedom is not free, it comes at a cost. I would like to urge our people to continue to fight to achieve what we want in 2022,” added Tayzar San.
The junta-controlled Home Affairs Ministry also held a meeting to spread the regime’s announcement nationwide and to organize how to prosecute any violations of it.
A Yangon resident said that the junta’s threats would not deter people from participating in the silent strike, while vowing to join it himself.
“The more they oppress us, the more we will rise. We will stay home or go outside as we want,” said the man.
Since the coup, military regime forces have killed around 1,500 people and arrested more than 11,700. Around 9,000 people remain behind bars.
News (14) to (30) / Reporter : Shwe Zin, The Irrawaddy / https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/myanmar-revolution-has-necessary-ingredients-for-success-us-security-expert.html
Within 10 months of the military coup on 1 February 2021 the young resistance fighters comprising the People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) had become very effective even without real, formal military training, she said, citing the fact that the military routinely suffers a higher number of killed in action than the PDF side whenever there is a real battle happening.
She told The Irrawaddy, “On the resistance side, they are learning, adapting all the time and they are innovating. Again, in the military operation, it is not the firepower that contributes to success. It is strategy; the ability to outsmart the enemy. I am very optimistic on the people’s side, because they are adapting and changing, whereas the military is very rigid and they are unable to change it.”
Since the coup, Myanmar soldiers’ defections have reached unprecedented levels. Some 2,500 have been recorded and at least another 2,000-3,000 have gone unreported, she added.
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Hawaii, US. She served in the US Army for 28 years after joining at the age of 18. The immigrant academic, 55, has contributed her wisdom in providing education to Myanmar military personnel, and empowerment to local women and youth, since 2012.
Based on her interviews with members of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), defectors, ethnic armed organizations, PDFs and those leading the parallel civilian National Unity Government (NUG), she believes 2022 will be a turning point for Myanmar.
Dr Byrd revealed the role of the international community and ways of resolving the crisis as she shared her perspectives on the turmoil in Myanmar. Below are extracts of her observations.
News (15)
Myanmar Junta reverts to air power as frontline soldiers defect
"I wouldn’t discount the lower level or the frontline soldiers defecting. In fact, that is better, because the weapons don’t get up and shoot by themselves. Depriving the military of their soldiers, one way is to kill them and the other way is to lay down their arms and join the people’s side. The same effect, that takes away military strength. That’s why [the regime] are now reverting to air power."
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Myanmar Junta military is disintegrating as the people have lots of strategies
"We can say that, because they don’t have any other strategy. It seems that their primary strategy is all about military strategy. When you make the military strategy as your primary strategy, and when you no longer have soldiers to fight your war, you have nothing else left.
"On the people’s side, they have a variety of strategies. One of the things I notice on the people’s side is they use a lot of communication strategies. In military [terms] we call it strategic communication strategy, to make sure everybody knows. All the audiences are informed of all the brutal [incidents], what the military is doing and making sure everybody inside the country understands where they are going, what the military is doing, and then informing the international community on what the military is doing and what the Myanmar people together want the country to go."
News (17)
Continue to reject the Myanmar Junta but external forces make things worse
"...the biggest thing, the most valuable thing the international community has done for Myanmar is to delegitimate, not accept the military regime. Even in ASEAN, the neighboring countries do not accept the Myanmar military junta. I think they are doing what they can."
"Meanwhile Myanmar people, I think, sometimes it is good to be bootstrapping yourself and you will value it more. If the external [force] comes in, many times the external people don’t understand the actual operating environment, the complexity of the operating environment. Sometimes the external forces can make things worse."
News (18)
CCP prefers to deal with NUG
"I have heard from my China specialist that actually China prefers to deal with the civilian government, because they were predictable. Whereas they have found the military to be unpredictable.
"On top of this, during these 10 months the military has continued to purchase weapons and military equipment from Russia. That does not make [China] happy. They would rather Myanmar buy weapons and stuff from them. China always sees Myanmar as a part of their sphere of influence."
News (19)
CCP wants Myanmar people's support and thus will reject the regime
"China does not want the entire Myanmar populace against them. In the early part of the protests, the anti-China sentiment got really high. That’s not in China’s interest. China is also between a rock and a hard place, because they want to be on the winning side. They thought the Myanmar military will win. They went toward that. Now, China realizes that the military winning is not a foregone conclusion. You cannot look at history as an indicator of which way it will go. I think that China will make adjustments to be on the winning side."
News (20)
Russia wrestles with the U.S. for political control of Myanmar
"Russia has provided not only equipment, but also diplomatic support. What is Russia’s interest in Myanmar? One, they are making a lot of money, selling arms to Myanmar. Also they are spoilers, because right now in the world, there is a contest in larger geopolitics, there is competition between the authoritarian system and the democratic system. Myanmar is, I would say, ground zero in that. It’s in the frontline. Russia wants Myanmar to not be a democratic country [for the symbolic value]. It’s poking in the eye of the United States. Those are the reasons the Russians are there."
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Stronger collaboration between PDFs and EAOs better for Myanmar
"That would be the game-changer. I mean that would be the turning point if and when they really are able to, a hundred percent, coordinate and cooperate.
"But they are cooperating already. We have hundreds of reports of that occurring from the frontline. When the PDFs are in a jam and they need help, EAOs step in. They were able to get through some of the distrust… The military for 75 years … made sure the people are divided. That’s what the people are having to overcome, in the middle of the crisis."
"As they get better at cooperating and collaborating, that’s going to be one of the indicators for the turning point that I have been talking about."
News (22)
PDFs protect Myanmar people and their community
"These PDFs can be considered as fulfilling the mission of responsibility to protect their people and their community."
News (23)
Myanmar people want to negotiate with the regime from the position of strength
"I think people want to negotiate with the military from a position of strength, position of power. The fact that the military is starting to talk about negotiation—they didn’t want to talk about dialogue or negotiation before, now they are—that tells you that the military is in a bad position at this moment.
"Of course, everybody should be all for dialogue and negotiation. You also have to address simultaneously the accountability for those war crimes that were definitely committed. There’re no ifs and buts about it."
News (24)
The Myanmar military find it unable to consolidate its power
"If you capture one of the military personnel, you can do it internationally somewhere or in areas that the PDFs have control over. There are many pockets of control, you know, being administered by PDFs and the NUG and the local administrators. No longer the military. The military do not have access to some of those places.
"The military, since the coup, has not been able to consolidate its power. It cannot hold any of these areas, or one hundred percent of Myanmar’s area, on the ground."
News (25)
Lower-level soldiers defect due to different agendas and leaders' suicides
"I was surprised when the coup occurred. But then, when I look back, pull myself back and analyze, really I should not have been surprised. Like I said earlier, we haven’t had a chance to reach out to a lot more senior military personnel to change their minds. But you are seeing a lot of the lower-level officers defecting, because they have different agendas. They went into the military wanting to join a professional army organization. And then when they saw what the military has turned into, the leaders have really committed suicide; for the military when they started shooting people in the head, using the brutality. `
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Tatmadaw is synonymous with terror
"...the name Tatmadaw [Myanmar’s military] in the international arena has become synonymous with the organization of terror, similar to that of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Really what they have done is they, the military leaders, have assassinated their own military reputation."
News (27)
Future Myanmar armed forces need to be inclusive and diversify
"Future armed forces need to be inclusive and diversify. No one ethnic group should have complete control of the armed forces, because that’s what the Bamar did, pretty much the Myanmar military was primarily a Bamar military. They use their arms to oppress other ethnic groups—as well as, now, even the Bamar people. Also you need checks and balances, and that’s where civilian control of the military is one of the checks-and-balances principles."
News (28)
Civilians need to be educated on security studies
"In order for us to do that, the civilian side also needs to be educated on security studies. They don’t have to wear uniforms to understand military operations. In the US, we have many civilians that are inside the Department of Defense and inside the military, because we do want that check and balance, and also bringing in the civilian perspectives into the military."
News (29)
More women's pro-active leadership roles, young people's creativity and old people's wisdom can work wonders together
"I think women bring a very unique and valuable contribution to the resistance or to building up democracy. I’d like them to lean in and try to be in leadership positions as well. Not only at the participant level, they need to also be sitting at the decision-making table. I’d encourage the NUG, NUCC [National Unity Consultative Council] to make sure to look around."
We really need young people at the decision-making table as well, because they again bring different perspectives. And they have the creativity. Old people have the wisdom; together it is a powerful combination.
News (30)
People's strength of participation, international pressure and defections are three elements of the successful Myanmar revolution
"According to studies, there are three key elements that are found in all successful revolutions. First is the people’s anger; huge amounts, huge numbers of people. Number two is international pressure, and three is defections.
"Myanmar has all three elements—therefore, as I said it is unprecedented. The Silent Strike on Dec. 10, that was one of my indicators. The entire country was empty. That … is an indicator of the people’s commitment and anger. So, all three are [evident] in the current situation in Myanmar."
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