The Secrets of Jamal Khashoggi: What They Didn't Want You to Know

Even though it has been quite some time since the world-renowned journalist Jamal Khashoggi passed away, the secrets behind his story and the truths they absolutely did not want you to know remain jaw-dropping to this day. Most people simply know that Khashoggi was brutally assassinated inside a consulate for criticizing the Saudi government. But the real reason the authorities wanted to hide this from the world runs much deeper than that. Khashoggi wasn't just an ordinary reporter; he had been deeply connected with top Saudi royal family members and intelligence chiefs for decades. He knew the government's inner secrets inside out, and that made him their greatest threat. He had a profound understanding of the darkest secrets of the authoritarian regime, and more importantly, he possessed the global influence and a powerful pen to expose them to the world.

In reality, Khashoggi was once a veteran journalist who was highly popular and well-connected within the Saudi royal family and government circles. However, everything flipped upside down when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) rose to power. While the Crown Prince was busy showcasing reforms to modernize Saudi Arabia, he was simultaneously crushing dissidents and critics without mercy—something Khashoggi simply couldn't stomach. Because of this, Khashoggi left for the United States and began writing sharp, relentless critiques in The Washington Post, exposing the Saudi government's authoritarian moves, its involvement in the Yemen war, and its human rights violations. This raises the question: why did they resort to such a brutal assassination just for some criticism? Ultimately, it was because Khashoggi’s pen carried immense weight, not just in the Arab world, but on an international scale. His articles severely damaged the "modern and open country" image that the Saudi government was desperately trying to project to the world.

What is even more terrifying is the truth they wanted to hide at all costs: the new projects Khashoggi was secretly setting up near the end. After moving to the U.S., he was quietly launching an online counter-movement called the "Bee Army" to fight back against the Saudi government's online propaganda troll armies. On top of that, he was building a powerful network, bringing together international dissidents and activists to bring free speech and the light of democracy to the entire Arab world. To the Saudi Crown Prince and the ruling authorities, this looked like a revolutionary seed that could directly shake their throne, and it terrified them. This direct threat to the royal family's hold on power is exactly why they decided to silence him for good.

When the secret report from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding this assassination was finally released, it stunned the world. The CIA's definitive assessment concluded that no one would have dared to pull off an operation of this scale without the direct authorization or order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself. The CIA intercepted communications and analyzed phone logs, discovering evidence that the Saudi ambassador—who happens to be the Crown Prince's brother—personally called Khashoggi to direct him to the consulate in Istanbul. That's not all; a report by Agnes Callamard, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights, also firmly pointed out that this was a state-sanctioned killing, holding the Crown Prince and top officials directly accountable. Secret audio files obtained by Turkish intelligence further proved that the moment Khashoggi stepped into the consulate, a 15-member Saudi hit squad was waiting for him. The audio evidence captured them telling him, "We have to take you back," before brutally strangling him to death.

Ultimately, in October 2018, Khashoggi was assassinated in cold blood inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. The Saudi government consistently denied the allegations, claiming it wasn't the Crown Prince's order but rather a "rogue operation" carried out by lower-level intelligence agents on their own accord, and they even handed out show-trial sentences to a few suspects. However, the international intelligence reports have already firmly etched the truth into history, making it crystal clear who was really behind the act. They chose to eliminate Khashoggi in such a horrific manner inside a consulate not just to silence him, but to terrify and intimidate every other critic around the globe. Yet, what they desperately tried to hide is the undeniable truth that you cannot destroy a person's ideas, secrets, and yearning for freedom just by killing them. The very words of Khashoggi that they tried to bury away from the world continue to pierce through the hearts of autocrats, remaining a constant threat to this day.

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ဂျမားလ် ခါရှိုဂီကို ဘယ်သူ၊ ဘာကြောင့် သတ်ခဲ့တာလဲ

နိုင်ငံတကာသတင်းတွေထဲမှာ လူပြောအများဆုံးနဲ့ ရင်သပ်ရှုမောအဖြစ်ရဆုံး လုပ်ကြံမှုတစ်ခုကို ပြန်ကြည့်မယ်ဆိုရင် သတင်းထောက် ဂျမားလ် ခါရှိုဂီရဲ့ အဖြစ်အပျက်ကို ဘယ်တော့မှ မေ့လို့ရမှာမဟုတ်ပါဘူး။ တကယ်တော့ ခါရှိုဂီဆိုတာ တစ်ချိန်က ဆော်ဒီတော်ဝင်မိသားစုနဲ့ အစိုးရအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကြားမှာ တော်တော်လေး ရေပန်းစားပြီး ရင်းနှီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဝါရင့်သတင်းထောက်ကြီးတစ်ယောက်ပါ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ ဆော်ဒီရဲ့ အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသား မိုဟာမက် ဘင် ဆလမန် (MBS) အာဏာရလာတဲ့အခါမှာတော့ အားလုံးက ပြောင်းပြန်ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသားဟာ ဆော်ဒီနိုင်ငံကို ခေတ်မီအောင် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲရေးတွေ လုပ်ပြနေပေမဲ့ တစ်ဖက်မှာလည်း သူ့ကို အတိုက်အခံလုပ်သူတွေ၊ ဝေဖန်သူတွေကို လုံးဝ အညှာအတာမရှိ နှိပ်ကွပ်ခဲ့တာကို ခါရှိုဂီက သဘောမကျခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒါကြောင့်ပဲ ခါရှိုဂီဟာ အမေရိကန်ကို ထွက်ခွာသွားပြီး The Washington Post သတင်းစာမှာ ဆော်ဒီအစိုးရရဲ့ အာဏာရှင်ဆန်တဲ့ လုပ်ရပ်တွေ၊ ယီမင်စစ်ပွဲမှာ ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်မှုတွေနဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုတွေကို ကလောင်ထက်ထက်နဲ့ အဆက်မပြတ် ရေးသားဝေဖန်ပါတော့တယ်။

ဒီနေရာမှာ မေးစရာရှိတာက ဝေဖန်ရုံတင်နဲ့ ဘာလို့ ဒီလောက်အထိ ရက်ရက်စက်စက် လုပ်ကြံရတာလဲဆိုတာပါပဲ။ အဓိကကတော့ ခါရှိုဂီရဲ့ ကလောင်ဟာ အာရပ်ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခုလုံးမှာတင်မကဘဲ နိုင်ငံတကာအဆင့်အထိ သြဇာညောင်းလွန်းနေလို့ပါ။ သူရေးသမျှ ဆောင်းပါးတွေက ဆော်ဒီအစိုးရ ကမ္ဘာ့အလယ်မှာ ပုံဖော်ချင်နေတဲ့ "ခေတ်မီပွင့်လင်းတဲ့ နိုင်ငံ" ဆိုတဲ့ ပုံရိပ်ကို အကြီးအကျယ် ထိခိုက်စေခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ပိုပြီး စိုးရိမ်စရာကောင်းတာက ခါရှိုဂီဟာ အာရပ်ကမ္ဘာမှာ လွတ်လပ်စွာ ပြောဆိုခွင့်နဲ့ ဒီမိုကရေစီ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုတွေ ဖြစ်လာဖို့ အွန်လိုင်းကနေ လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွေ စတင်ဖို့ ပြင်ဆင်နေတာကို ဆော်ဒီအာဏာပိုင်တွေ သိသွားခဲ့တာပါပဲ။ ဒါဟာ တော်ဝင်မိသားစုရဲ့ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေးကို တိုက်ရိုက် ခြိမ်းခြောက်လာတဲ့အတွက် သူ့ကို နှုတ်ပိတ်ဖို့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြတာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

နောက်ဆုံးမှာတော့ ၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ်၊ အောက်တိုဘာလထဲမှာ တူရကီနိုင်ငံ၊ အစ္စတန်ဘူလ်မြို့က ဆော်ဒီကောင်စစ်ဝန်ရုံးအတွင်းမှာ ခါရှိုဂီဟာ သွေးအေးအေးနဲ့ လုပ်ကြံခံလိုက်ရပါတယ်။ အမေရိကန် ထောက်လှမ်းရေးအဖွဲ့ (CIA) ရဲ့ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုတွေအရ ဒီလို ကောင်စစ်ဝန်ရုံးထဲအထိ အထူးအဖွဲ့လွှတ်ပြီး လုပ်ကြံခိုင်းဖို့ အမိန့်ကို အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသား MBS ကိုယ်တိုင် အတည်ပြုပေးခဲ့တာလို့ ကောက်ချက်ချခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။ ဆော်ဒီအစိုးရဘက်ကတော့ ဒါဟာ အိမ်ရှေ့မင်းသားရဲ့ အမိန့်မဟုတ်ဘဲ အောက်ခြေက ထောက်လှမ်းရေးတွေ သဘောအလျောက် လွန်လွန်ကျွံကျွံ လုပ်သွားတာပါလို့ ငြင်းဆိုခဲ့ပေမဲ့၊ ကမ္ဘာကတော့ ဒီလုပ်ရပ်ရဲ့ နောက်ကွယ်မှာ ဘယ်သူရှိနေသလဲဆိုတာကို အထင်အရှား သိနေခဲ့ကြပြီးသား ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

#justicforjamalkhashoggi

Khashoggi: A Tool for Global Power Play

The journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally assassinated inside the consulate, and though his life was cut short, his soul and the case file he left behind continue to be repeatedly resurrected on the global political stage. It is truly heartbreaking to see how he is still being exploited like a diplomatic poker chip. Underneath the banners of truth and human rights, the self-serving calculations of major powers and hidden machinations run rampant behind the curtain. Initially, the U.S. government seized upon this case to pressure Saudi Arabia on the international stage, but when oil interests and arms deals took center stage, it failed to take any effective action, and the effort went up in smoke. Especially when Donald Trump came to power, this case was driven into the dark corners of history, relegated to a state of oblivion. Under the alignment of political, economic, and personal interests between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Khashoggi case was completely ignored. A rock-solid alliance—built between Washington and Riyadh to control the global oil market and secure billions in arms dealer profits—became something that no one dared to touch or disrupt.

Yet, while everything seemed quiet and the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were setting the playbook exactly as they pleased, France suddenly revived the case through investigations. This move subtly and systematically introduced a fracture into what was supposed to be a rock-solid alliance between Trump and Saudi Arabia. At first glance, France’s action looks like a stand for the rule of law and human rights, but if viewed through an insider lens, it reveals itself as a strategic playbook by President Macron, who aims to lead Europe. Seeking to break away from the shadow of the United States and demonstrate that Europe has the capacity to stand on its own sovereign power, France picked up the Khashoggi case as a political card. While seizing the moral leadership of the Western world, it also created a lever to politically pressure the Saudi government, aiming to gain the upper hand and secure easier leverage in Middle Eastern affairs and arms trade. Using the independence of the courts as a pretext, the government could well be using this as a diplomatic hostage situation, or it could be a calculated move to warn Saudi Arabia as it seeks to expand its influence with blocs like BRICS to challenge Western dominance.

At this point, to pull back the curtain on reality even further, it is blatantly clear that the superficial justice system of Western countries only springs into action when it aligns with their own interests. No matter how much French courts proclaim their absolute independence, the reality remains that the moment France's diplomatic pressuring and profit-sharing negotiations are smoothly settled on the international front, this case file will almost certainly be silenced and put to rest. In other words, Khashoggi’s life has once again become a priceless commodity utilized to balance the global axis of power and serve France’s national interests. In the end, Jamal Khashoggi was not only stripped of his life, but even in death, he is destined to remain a script that never ends—nothing more than an inanimate political pawn caught amidst the power struggles and backstage rivalries of global superpowers.

The History of Chocolate

 

That "chocolate" we all love so much today actually has a really deep and fascinating history. A lot of people think it all started in Europe or England, but its true birthplace is all the way on the other side of the world, right in the rainforests of Mexico and Central America.

Over 3,000 years ago, Native American tribes in that region, like the Maya and the Aztecs, first discovered the fruit of the cacao tree in the wild. But they didn't just eat it as a sweet fruit like we might think. Instead, they roasted the beans, ground them into a powder, and then mixed it with water, chili peppers, and various other spices to drink it as a beverage. The taste was nothing like the sweet chocolate we have today—it was incredibly bitter and spicy.

What’s really interesting here is that the word "chocolate" itself didn't come from somewhere else; it is an authentic, original word from the Native Americans. In the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, they called this drink "Chocolatl." It literally meant "biter water." It's from this very word that today's global term "chocolate" was born. Remarkably, cacao beans were so rare and valuable back then that they were even used as currency, just like gold.

The big turning point in history came in the 16th century (the 1500s). When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Americas and conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico, they brought these cacao beans back to the King of Spain as a gift. The Europeans weren't fans of the original bitter and spicy taste, so they took out the chilis and started mixing in sugar, honey, and vanilla. Once they drank it that way, they realized just how delicious of a sweet drink it could be.

After that, chocolate spread rapidly from Spain to France, Italy, and eventually all the way to England. By the 17th century, "Chocolate Houses" were popping up all over England like mushrooms, becoming high-end social hubs where the elite and royalty would gather to proudly enjoy this premium drink.

Even then, the chocolate bars we bite into today still didn't exist. For hundreds of years, it remained strictly a "drink." It wasn't until the 19th century—specifically 1847—that a family-owned company in England called J.S. Fry & Sons successfully figured out how to blend cocoa powder with sugar and cocoa butter. With that, they invented the world's very first solid chocolate bar. And that is exactly how it evolved into the modern-day chocolate that everyone around the world is so head-over-heels in love with today.

— Aung Myo Lwin @ Agga

Combating Online Fraud in Myanmar

There is an urgent need to release API systems that allow people to check whether duplicate accounts have been opened without their knowledge using their NRC numbers within Myanmar’s online payment systems (such as KBZPay and other wallets). If a system is introduced where citizens can easily verify this at nearby Agent shops and close those unauthorized accounts instantly, I believe we can significantly prevent online financial fraud. If you agree, please share your feedback/support through the link below: https://myanmar.gov.mm/feedback...

Do Not Fear Cyber Extortion – Stand Up Boldly!

 Do Not Fear Cyber Extortion – Stand Up Boldly!

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Today, cases of cyber extortion using AI (Deepfake) technology to create realistic, altered videos of your photos that are virtually indistinguishable from reality are happening on a daily basis. This is not a problem you are facing alone, and it is not your fault.

If you routinely post personal information and photos online, you must always keep the following three points in mind and take proactive preparations:

1. Enhance Your Personal Privacy (Proactive Defense)
Always be aware that the moment you post a photo online, you run the risk of encountering this type of danger.

Restrict your photos on social media platforms so that they are not visible to everyone (set to Private or Friends Only).

Avoid oversharing personal photographs online.

2. Never Give In to Fear if Threatened (No Ransom)
If someone attempts to extort money using your photos or videos:

Do not delete anything: Securely save all threatening messages, phone numbers, and sent videos as evidence (via screenshots or exporting chats) so they can be traced.

Never pay money: If you pay once, they will treat you like a permanent wallet and demand money repeatedly.

Do not be ashamed: Remember that your shame is a weapon for the extortionists, while your courage is their downfall.

3. Report Immediately Through Technical and Legal Channels (Action)
Do not stay silent out of fear. Contact the following agencies immediately for assistance:

Report Phone: +95 67 3422272

Email: infoteam@mmcert.org.mm or incident@mmcert.org.mm

International Prevention: Register your images at StopNCII.org. (This platform utilizes AI systems to automatically block these videos from spreading on Facebook, Instagram, and other major platforms).

Precise Detection Through Technology
By fostering mutual cooperation among government departments, telecommunications companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and tech corporations like Telegram, Viber, and Messenger, perpetrators of these crimes can be precisely tracked down and apprehended in real time.

Please Note: Prioritize truth over shame and report the incident courageously. By doing so, you protect both yourself and others.

အွန်လိုင်းငွေညှစ်မှု (Cyber Extortion) ကို ကြောက်မနေနဲ့၊ ရဲရဲရင်ဆိုင်ပါ

ယနေ့ခေတ်တွင် AI (Deepfake) နည်းပညာကို အသုံးပြု၍ သင့်ရုပ်ပုံများကို အစစ်နှင့် ခွဲခြားမရအောင် ဗီဒီယိုအတုပြုလုပ်ကာ ငွေညှစ်သည့်ကိစ္စများမှာ နေ့စဉ်နှင့်အမျှ ရှိနေပါသည်။ ဒါဟာ သင်တစ်ယောက်တည်း ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် ပြဿနာမဟုတ်သလို သင့်အပြစ်လည်း မဟုတ်ပါ။
အကယ်၍ သင်သည် အွန်လိုင်းတွင် ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ အချက်အလက်နှင့် ဓာတ်ပုံများ တင်လေ့ရှိသူဆိုလျှင် အောက်ပါအချက် (၃) ချက်ကို အမြဲသတိပြု ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်ထားရပါမည်။
၁။ ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ လုံခြုံရေးကို မြှင့်တင်ပါ (Proactive Defense)
အွန်လိုင်းပေါ်တွင် ပုံတစ်ပုံ တင်လိုက်ပြီဆိုသည်နှင့် ဤသို့သော အန္တရာယ်မျိုး ကြုံလာနိုင်ခြေရှိသည်ကို အမြဲသတိပြုပါ။
Social Media များတွင် သင့်ပုံများကို လူတိုင်းမမြင်နိုင်အောင် (Private/Friends Only) ကန့်သတ်ထားပါ။
ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ ဓာတ်ပုံများကို အလွန်အကျွံ တင်ခြင်းမှ ရှောင်ကြဉ်ပါ။
၂။ ခြိမ်းခြောက်လာပါက လုံးဝ မကြောက်ပါနှင့် (No Ransom)
အကယ်၍ သင့်ပုံ/ဗီဒီယိုများဖြင့် ငွေညှစ်လာပါက -
ဘာမှမဖျက်ပါနှင့်: ခြိမ်းခြောက်သည့်စာများ၊ ဖုန်းနံပါတ်များနှင့် ပို့ထားသော ဗီဒီယိုများကို ခြေရာခံနိုင်ရန် သက်သေအဖြစ် (Screenshots/Export Chat) သေချာစွာ သိမ်းဆည်းထားပါ။
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နည်းပညာဖြင့် တိကျစွာ ဖော်ထုတ်နိုင်ခြင်း
ဤကဲ့သို့သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို အစိုးရဌာနများ၊ Telecom (ဆက်သွယ်ရေးကုမ္ပဏီများ)၊ ISP (အင်တာနက်ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေးသူများ)၊ CID (မှုခင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့) နှင့် Telegram, Viber, Messenger ကဲ့သို့သော နည်းပညာကုမ္ပဏီများ အပြန်အလှန် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းဖြင့် တရားခံကို တိကျစွာ အချိန်နှင့်တစ်ပြေးညီ ခြေရာခံ ဖမ်းဆီးနိုင်ပါသည်။
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