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We, Women’s Peace Network, take this International Women’s Day to reaffirm our solidarity with women across the world and our resilient resistance for equity and liberation. From Iran to Ukraine, women are the creators, innovators, and leaders of our intersectional movement for a world free of (...)
On 1er February 2021, the Burmese army (Tatmadaw) broke off its governmental cohabitation with the National League for Democracy (NLD), incarcerating its leaders, and then plunged the entire country into an atrocious asymmetric war. Two years later, it has still not succeeded in imposing its (...)
Justice For Myanmar welcomes sanctions imposed by the EU on members of the terrorist Myanmar military junta, its arms brokers and jet fuel suppliers, more than two years after the military’s illegal coup attempt.
Arms brokers targeted in the latest round of sanctions include Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit (...)
The Russia-Myanmar Friendship Association and business owners in Myanmar signed deals for the Ngapali beach resort in Rakhine State on Saturday.
The association president Anatoly Bulochnikov met junta boss Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw on January 30 to reportedly discuss tourism and trade with (...)
Global news headlines this month will be focused on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which falls on Feb. 24. This external aggression, where a bigger state unilaterally takes territory from a smaller neighbor by force, can be juxtaposed with an internal subjugation in (...)
A young resistance fighter, known as the Burmese Spiderman because he wore a mask during anti-regime protests in Yangon, was killed during a clash in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region, on Wednesday.
Khant Thiha, 17, and another two members of the Black Wolf Army, Yebaw Paing Gyi, 30, and Win (...)
Myanmar’s military government has imposed martial law in 37 townships across the country, including in the resistance strongholds of Sagaing and Magwe regions.
Martial law came a day after the regime extended emergency rule for six more months, two years since the coup on February 1, 2021, (...)
The two-year anniversary of the military coup d’etat in Myanmar was met with a silent strike in many parts of the country. Outside Myanmar embassies in Thailand and other countries, protesters screamed out the name of dictator Min Aung Hlaing, slightly adjusted to Mah Ar Lah (an accusation of (...)
The moves come as the regime extends a national state of emergency two years after seizing power.
Resistance fighters travel between villages in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township in November (Moe Oo/ Myanmar Now)
Myanmar’s military junta has declared martial law in 37 townships in eight of the (...)
While it continues to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, international governments and aid agencies are risking complicity in their atrocities by lending it legitimacy, particularly by cooperating with the junta, signing Memoranda of Understanding, and entering into development (...)
Two years after seizing power in a coup, Min Aung Hlaing’s junta in Myanmar continues to be ensnared in a civil war that shows no signs of abating.
Since the military crushed the mass strikes that emerged in opposition to the coup, tens of thousands of armed youth, small farmers and workers (...)
WASHINGTON—The US slapped fresh sanctions on Myanmar on Tuesday, a day before the Southeast Asian country marked the second anniversary of a military coup that has been followed by a violent crackdown on anti-regime forces.
The US Treasury placed sanctions on Myanmar junta Energy Minister Myo (...)
Shan Nationalities League for Democracy general secretary Sai Leik.
Myanmar’s regime has passed its Political Parties Registration Law ahead of its planned general election this year.
Observers and politicians say the law favors the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (...)
Wednesday marks the second anniversary since Myanmar’s military seized power after rejecting the results of the 2020 election and ousting the civilian government. The coup plunged ordinary citizens into crisis as the economy spiraled out of control. Food prices and the cost of living have soared (...)
The UK, US, Canada and Australia have announced a range of measures aimed at punishing Myanmar’s military.
The UK, US and Canada have imposed fresh sanctions against Myanmar’s military, including some measures aimed at stopping the supply of aviation fuel to its air force, which is accused of (...)
Two years since the Burmese military’s attempted coup, over five years since its 2017 attacks of genocide, and after its decades of atrocities against our communities, we, Women’s Peace Network, are conflicted with speechless tragedy and rage. The military remains free to brutalize the entire (...)
Myanmar’s oil and gas industry provides enormous revenues to the illegal military junta, enabling it to wage a brutal offensive against its own people.
Now newly-leaked documents and corporate records reveal that some of the world’s biggest oilfield services companies, including Baker Hughes, (...)
Myanmar’s opposition parties and ethnic separatists have formed a united front against the military junta.
Two years on from the latest military coup that deposed Myanmar’s democratically elected government, what began as a wave of national protest against the army’s power grab has descended into (...)
To mark the anniversary of the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, The Irrawaddy offers a review of developments in Myanmar’s political, economic and military spheres, as well as its international relations, over the past two years.
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Politics
Firstly, the 2008 Constitution was (...)
Interviewer’s Note:
Myanmar started its broad-ranging political and economic liberalisation process when the quasi-civilian government came to power in 2011, calling for the expansion of foreign direct investment and international trade. The nature of Myanmar’s workforce also shifted from (...)
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