Verena Hölzl

RT @Beaking_News: I missed this brilliant piece by @verenahoelzl when it was first published. Her vivid journey through the jungle to meet…

RT @sheehanj920: stellar piece here! "@maung_saungkha jokes that he used to be a "playboy and a poet.” Of his new life in war, in which he…

RT @MargariteClarey: How a Burmese "playboy and a poet” became a commander in the Bamar People’s Liberation Army A touching piece, and a…

6-month fellowship in Berlin for journos from countries with restricted freedom of the press. Apply by Nov 25. https://t.co/BdFRIDrCJm

RT @CharlieCamp6ell: Read @verenahoelzl 's fantastic profile Bangladesh student leader Nahid Islam in @TIME https://t.co/AHTyjUVSvY

RT @bjimbd: If you are a journalist who covered the frontline of the student movement and feel you need to breathe the trauma out off your…

Thinking back of countless and at times strange reporting trips to a place rife with grievances and conflict. Can Rakhine State still walk back from spiralling into yet another abyss? https://t.co/E1MXQG4JsK

"Why aren't they doing this for us?" hotel staff in Kyiv asked after IL was protected from Iranian missiles. In Kharkiv there's again so many air raids, you can barely keep track. For lack of better defense they kill. 8 ppl on the day that I reported this. https://t.co/at17oHW6Wj

Refugees shot dead in broad daylight and aid workers getting caught up in gun fights: I certainly didn't expect good news when I travelled to the #Rohingya camps earlier this year. But what I found still shocked me. https://t.co/O4x4eFi6e0

With more violence and less aid for 🇧🇩 refugee camps, the number of Rohingya taking dangerous boat journeys has increased again. On overcrowded boats, they are not only exposed to the open sea. Story with @KaamilAhmed https://t.co/v82EOMajI5

RT @JohnReedwrites: An intense and sad account from a Thai Hamas hostage: “To communicate what time of day it was, the guards would point a…

I've been reporting on Israel / Gaza for roughly two weeks now. Watching this was cathartic: https://t.co/4gNavzUnd1

This is what impunity for the #Myanmar military does to civilians, often innocent children. It has happened and it will happen over and over again until there is a price for them to pay. There's no easy solution to holding them accountable, but every little step counts.

Saw Nimrod from Burma @NimrodAndrew

We are heartbroken to see the attack of Laiza by the brutal regime SAC last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and community there. The attack of Kachin is the attack of Karen and our other ethnic alliance. #KIO #KNU #WhatishappeninginMyanmar https://t.co/cwosF5EYFZ

Sleepless night for people in Kachin State: The military bombed the area around the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army. At least 29 civilians in Mung Lai Hkyet village paid the price - many of them having fled their homes to escape #Myanmar military airstrikes before. https://t.co/kwhaDjOCtA

RT @FortifyRights: Today, we remember Mohib Ullah, founder of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights. He was tragically a…

RT @MargariteClarey: 📣 Bangkok-based friends and colleagues, please join us @FCCThai next Friday 6 Oct for a @CrisisGroup discussion on the…

OSINT training by @MyanmarWitness for Myanmar journalists in Chiang Mai (on verifying fires and working with satellite imagery), Oct 2 & 3. Register here: https://t.co/NGG0bmXS73