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  • Rina Shah
    Rina Shah “Protests in US universities are a display of democracy in action, a welcome sight in an election year marked by concerns of voter apathy chiefly due to Israel's war on Gaza. So when I see a movement like this of students taking peaceful, non-violent action and expressing their concern about the US government backing of Israel, of where our tax money is going, I think that's extremely healthy. These students are out there concerned about America's role in backing Benjamin Netanyahu. On the one hand, we are supplying weapons and funds to do what he wants to do in Gaza, while on the other we are sending humanitarian aid to Gaza. This is the hypocrisy these students are concerned about.” 46 minutes ago
  • Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Friedman “But revenge is not a strategy. It is pure insanity that Israel is now more than six months into this war and the Israeli military leadership - and virtually the entire political class - has allowed Netanyahu to continue to pursue a 'total victory' there, including probably soon plunging deep into Rafah, without any exit plan or Arab partner lined up to step in once the war ends. If Israel ends up with an indefinite occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank, it would be a toxic military, economic and moral overstretch that would delight Israel's most dangerous foe, Iran, and repel all its allies in the West and the Arab world.” 1 hour ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Of course, I'm grateful to all of our partners who have helped us with air defence: each air defence system and each air defence missile is literally saving lives. It's important that everything works out as quickly as possible: every new agreement with our partners to strengthen our air defence, every initiative from Ukraine's friends to help us, particularly with finding and supplying Patriot [anti-aircraft missile systems]. Ukraine needs at least seven [Patriot] systems. Our partners have these Patriots. Russian terrorists can see that unfortunately our partners aren't as determined to protect Europe from terror as they are to do so in the Middle East. But [our partners] can give us the air defence systems that we need. We mustn't waste time: we need to signal determination.” 5 hours ago
  • Antony Blinken
    Antony Blinken “I saw that Huawei just put out a new laptop that it boasted was AI capable, that uses an Intel chip. I think it demonstrates that what we're focused on is only the most sensitive technology that could pose a threat to our security. We're not focused on cutting off trade, or for that matter containing or holding back China.” 9 hours ago
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“While there have been individual responses from UN member states such as the US, UK, European Union, and Australia, they haven't been sufficient to cause enough of an impact on the Myanmar military for them to change their thinking or to try and pressure them into rethinking this coup and whether it is in their interests or not. The UK could put forward a resolution, but so far we've seen China and Russia specifically - the other permanent members of the security council - they would veto any resolution calling for a global arms embargo, which is essential to end the oppression of the Myanmar people by this quite heinous regime.”

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Regional Director of Fortify Rights
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“The situation is very volatile and it's very unclear what's going on. The mutiny is not a surprise and the attempted coup that it has become is not a surprise either. There have been a lot of grievances among the army due to the lack of resources, the poor equipment they have been given in fighting the insurgency. Originally the mutiny was about that - about the soldiers being treated better and given better equipment. It seems that negotiations have broken down and that it has become a full-blown coup.”

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Research fellow at the University of Portsmouth
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“A mutiny that has ingredients of a coup is exactly the way to look at this. We are now talking about a region which is seeing a swing back in favour of coups after an attempted coup in Niger and successful coups in Mali and Guinea in recent years. We have had five successful or attempted coups [in the region] if you count them all together this decade, so Burkina Faso is fitting into that pattern.”

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Director of the Africa Programme at the international think-tank, Chatham House
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“If you want to stage a successful coup you need to have a lot of support from the inside, which Putin apparently doesn't have. On top of that, if you change the government, you own Ukraine … and that would be a very expensive enterprise for the Russian leadership.”

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Head of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a Kremlin-linked think tank
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“Under the guise of spontaneous protests, a wave of unrest broke out … It became clear that the main goal was to undermine the constitutional order and to seize power. We are talking about an attempted coup d'etat... The main blow was directed against Almaty. The fall of this city would have paved the way for a takeover of the densely populated south and then the whole country. Then they planned to seize the capital [Nur-Sultan].”

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“The worst-case scenario could see security forces fracture. There was a real risk junior army officers could attempt to topple al-Burhan and the rest of the old guard. Al-Burhan is always worried about junior officers orchestrating a coup.”

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Sudanese researcher and political analyst based in the UK
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“The November 21 deal lacked public support, apparent in the continuation of the protests against him [Abdalla Hamdok] and his inability to appoint any ministers. It meant that no one wanted to share this pact with him. In their [protesters'] view, all he did was legitimise the coup. Hamdok was like a fig leaf.”

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Independent Sudanese analyst
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“In the interest of the people and of the protesters, the global community must not support this government in any way. Any aid that comes to this government will just support the coup. It won't benefit the people.”

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Representative of one of the Sudanese resistance committees
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“The sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday on bogus charges are the latest example of the military's determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar. The court's farcical and corrupt decision is part of a devastating pattern of arbitrary punishment that has seen more than 1,300 people killed and thousands arrested since the military coup in February. The international community must step up to protect civilians and hold perpetrators of grave violations to account, and ensure humanitarian and health assistance is granted as a matter of utmost urgency.”

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Senior Amnesty official in Asia
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“Since the day of the coup, it's been clear that the charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, and the dozens of other detained MPs, have been nothing more than an excuse by the junta to justify their illegal power grab.”

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Chair of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights and a Malaysian MP
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“Using state resources to campaign, bussing voters from remote, rural areas to the polls, and stacking vote observation tables with loyalists are just some ways the National Party can manipulate the results. It's a bit naive to think that the same people who carried out the coup, who committed grave human rights abuses and electoral fraud and violated the constitution to stay in power, today have converted into democrats and are going to easily accept losing power with all the implications that it carries.”

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“Protests could now be held against both the military and Hamdok following the deal. The deal was a major compromise on the part of the prime minister as it essentially validates what has been called bad behaviour by this coup. Protesters have every right to be concerned about what message this sends to the country and to the prospects of the democratic transition.”

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Former chief of staff for the US special envoy to Sudan
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“They (The Sudanese military) misunderstand the will on the street quite to their detriment. I think they are badly advised by regional powers supportive on this and uneasy by the prospect of transition.”

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Deputy Project Director, Horn of Africa and Senior Analyst, Sudan
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“My appeal is for - especially the big powers - to come together for the unity of the Security Council in order to make sure that there is effective deterrence in relation to this epidemic of coup d'éetats. We have seen that effective deterrence today is not in place.”

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Secretary-general of the United Nations
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“The coup in Sudan is unlikely to pass off smoothly. Memories of the corruption, repression and general misrule in the al-Bashir [Omar Hassan al-Bashir] years are too fresh in the minds of many Sudanese for them to accede without resistance to a return to the old order.”

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Project Director, Horn of Africa, International Crisis Group
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