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Welcome back to Frontier Fridays. This week French-owned TotalEnergies came out in support of sanctions, Telenor made headlines for not one but two sales, the chief of the Arakan Army said the junta could be “blown out like a supernova” in a candid interview, and changes were made to Myanmar’s (...)
Energy giants Total Energies and Chevron said Friday they would leave Myanmar following pressure from human rights groups to cut financial ties with the military junta since last year’s military coup.
Total cited in a statement the “worsening” human rights situation in the country in its decision (...)
When the Myanmar military reopened the nation’s schools in November, millions of students found themselves forced to choose between maintaining the boycott of state services and losing even more of their education.
Although Ko Linn Thet Maung was physically present in the classroom, he was not (...)
35 charred bodies found in Kayah State last month were killed in the ‘most inhumane manner I have seen in my life’, said a doctor who conducted the autopsies Aid agencies lament world powers’ ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach, including the US and China, to reports of grisly mass killings and (...)
Welcome to Frontier Fridays. This week Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen arrived in Myanmar for a state visit, the junta zoned in on Sagaing, fighting broke out between the military and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and the regime has started showing signs of financial stress.
Hun Sen (...)
Ahead of New Year’s Eve, Myanmar’s junta courts have been busily handing down the verdicts to detained National League for Democracy (NLD) government ministers, NLD leaders, artists and student leaders in Yangon, Bago and Magwe regions and Kachin and Shan states.
Top from left to right: Biak Rem (...)
As Myanmar rang in 2021, while the COVID-19 pandemic posed a significant challenge, it seemed there was much to look forward to as the government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) prepared for a historic second term in office. But those hopes for the future (...)
Labour protections were insufficient before the coup. Now the junta is rolling them back
Since 1962, workers’ rights in Myanmar suffered decades of abuse and neglect under military rule, creating a labour market where basic protections were neither adequately established by law nor respected in (...)
Courtney Wittekind interviews filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky about his film, “A Thousand Fires,” set in Magway.
“A Thousand Fires”, a new documentary by Palestinian-British director Saeed Taji Farouky, set in Magway, Myanmar, premiered in the Locarno Film Festival’s Semaine de la Critique earlier (...)
Being unbowed, defiant and outspoken are trademarks of Nan Khin Htwe Myint, the detained Karen State chief minister of the ousted National League for Democracy government.
When the military staged a coup on Feb. 1, the 67-year-old was detained, like other NLD government officials. She told The (...)
More than 80 junta soldiers and 14 civilian resistance fighters were reportedly killed during clashes with People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) in Sagaing and Magwe regions during three days this week.
The Irrawaddy could not independently verify any of the reports.
On Friday, a fierce clash between (...)
Over 20 years ago in exile, I co-founded the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) to monitor political prisoner numbers in Myanmar, so we can advocate and lobby the outside world to apply pressure on the Myanmar military, which once again seized power on February 1.
On October (...)
On 1 August, the State Administrative Council (SAC) Chairman Min Aung Hlaing (MAH) made a statement to a country in revolt, setting out a new political and economic horizon in post-putsch Myanmar. Beyond the predictably cynical hyperbole of peace and stability, the newly declared dictator, who (...)
While the international community continues to condemn Myanmar’s military for overthrowing the civilian National League for Democracy (NLD) government in its February 1 coup, bilateral ties between Myanmar and Russia have strengthened since the military takeover. Now, as well focusing on (...)
“It is clear, the military junta is targeting the mental wellbeing of not only the political prisoners, but their children and family members.”
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners
The release of some political prisoners on 18 October, people who should never have been arrested in the (...)
IndustriALL Global Union and IndustriAll European Trade Union are demanding urgent EU action in response to the horrendous human rights abuses against workers, human rights defenders, and trade unionists in Myanmar. Trade unions insist that the EU immediately revokes Myanmar’s trade preferences (...)
Moon (pseudonym) explores how university teachers factor into the revolution against military dictatorship.
As the military takeover in Myanmar enters its ninth month of oppression and threat, university teachers committed to the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) are facing more difficulties (...)
“While giving the junta a platform is immoral and an insult to the legitimate democratic government of Myanmar – the National Unity Government (NUG) – and the brave people fighting against tyranny in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, it is also a wrong political choice and goes against democratic (...)
Nearly nine months after its forceful takeover of the country from a legitimately elected civilian government, Myanmar’s military has shown that it is one thing to seize power but an entirely different reality to consolidate and impose control.
The inability of the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s armed (...)
Emerging as the first act of defiance after the military coup on 1 February 2021, the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is a general strike mobilisation spearheaded by hundreds of thousands of civil servants. The CDM has become the centre of focus for all parties involved in the post-coup era (...)
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