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In the month following the military’s Feb. 1 coup, many of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), which have been warring with the central government for decades, said they opposed the junta’s overthrowing of the democratically-elected civilian government.
When the Myanmar military killed (...)
Thousands of residents from at least two-dozen villages in Sagaing Region’s Kani Township are in need of emergency assistance.
They are still hiding in the forest as the regime’s soldiers continue their rampage in the area after a series of deadly shootouts with civilian resistance forces.
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When COVID-19 was recognised as a global pandemic in 2020, we heard from many civil society actors in Cambodia who held strong fears about its potentially critical impact. They anticipated that the spread of the pandemic, in combination with people’s fear and the government’s tightened (...)
Welcome to Frontier Fridays. This week students and teachers bravely boycotted the junta’s forced reopening of schools, the Arakan National Party said it would likely terminate its uneasy alliance with the military government, violent clashes continued across the country, and mixed messages on (...)
Contractual arrangements for the lucrative Yadana gas project may have been rigged to enable foreign energy giants to make excessive profits at Myanmar’s expense.
This hugely concerning and significant possibility has emerged from an analysis by Justice For Myanmar of leaked financial records (...)
The Myanmar military, which attempted a brutal and unlawful coup on Feb 1, is waging a campaign of terror against the people that involves deliberate killings, indiscriminate airstrikes, mass arrests and torture.
The military’s criminal conduct is enabled by its business interests. Justice For (...)
Since Myanmar’s military staged a coup on Feb. 1, no country seems more concerned than China over the unfolding chaos in the Southeast Asian nation. Given its investments in major infrastructure and other projects in the country, as well as its roughly US$16-million per day border trade with (...)
TNLA, MNDAA Claim to Have Killed Dozens of Myanmar Junta Troops in Shan State
The Myanmar military reportedly suffered heavy casualties during fierce clashes with members of the Northern Alliance in multiple locations in northern Shan State on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A combined force of Ta’ang (...)
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
Many parents breathed a sigh of relief in January when (...)
Myanmar’s Journalists Mark World Press Freedom Day in Hiding, Exile, DetentionIt would not be overstating the case to say that press freedom has been completely extinguished in Myanmar, with almost all independent journalists forced to work undercover, their newsrooms closed, living with the (...)
Nearly two months into their resistance against a ruthless dictatorship, many are ready to take the fight to the next level .
Ko Saung, a native of Mandalay, was completing a distance-education program at the city’s Yadanabon University and working at his parents’ business when the coup changed (...)
After three months of unyielding opposition to the military’s Feb. 1 coup, Myanmar is now a country in revolt.
The country, which has experienced more than its share of uprisings and revolutions—including the “’88 Pro-Democracy Uprising” in 1988 and the “Saffron Revolution” led by Buddhist monks in (...)
The streets of Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, have seen a limited resumption of protest activity after more than three weeks of relative calm due to brutal crackdowns by junta forces, including the use of explosives.
In the 57 days between Feb. 1 and March 29, around 210 anti-regime (...)
Brigade 5 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), seized a camp held by Myanmar’s junta forces near the Thai border on Tuesday. The ethnic Karen armed group also took control of the Thee Mu Hta military base on March 27.
Myanmar’s military (...)
Myanmar’s military junta announced Monday that it will take severe action against the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), accusing the group of inflating the number of those killed by the junta’s forces.
AAPP has been documenting the fatalities and arrests at the hands of the (...)
Working class communities may have been among the hardest hit by the coup, but despite their struggles many remain determined to see the military overthrown.
Among the wood, bamboo and tin homes that sprawl over several acres in one of Shwepyithar Township’s largest slums, Ko Kyaw Thu Htet (...)
Working class communities may have been among the hardest hit by the coup, but despite their struggles many remain determined to see the military overthrown.
Among the wood, bamboo and tin homes that sprawl over several acres in one of Shwepyithar Township’s largest slums, Ko Kyaw Thu Htet (...)
ASEAN will hold a “special” summit on Myanmar on Saturday in Jakarta, Indonesia, seeking to resolve the deteriorating situation in the country less than three months after the Feb. 1 coup.
A call by the Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) to be invited to the summit has been (...)
The junta has reportedly not been able to recapture any of the camps that they have lost to the Kachin forces.
KIA soldiers attend a morning prayer at a base near Mai Ja Yang in Kachin State in 2012 (EPA)
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has seized at least 10 of the junta’s army bases (...)
The rally was not met with violence by police or soldiers.
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads ‘What are we? We are Yangon people’ as they march in downtown Yangon on April 23 (EPA-EFE)
Anti-coup protesters returned to the streets of downtown Yangon on Friday after a weeks-long absence (...)
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