Min Aung Hlaing kept this year’s speech brief – just long enough to blame everyone for the disaster he created by seizing power from a democratically elected government almost three...
Deluded predictions of the junta’s impending fall, coupled with an imagined revolutionary unity, have cast the country’s future into darkness.
Thailand is stepping into a minefield with moves for joint humanitarian assistance in case of a refugee crisis on its border.
The fight is far from over, but after the events of 2023 the Myanmar military will never regain its former strength.
Experts said a popular revolt could never succeed; while there is much work to be done, 2023 will be remembered as the year the people began to prove them wrong.
The new Chinland charter authorizes a national flag and army, three branches of government and a council tasked with ensuring the transition to self-determination.
A veteran scholar of Myanmar recalls the time he discovered he had been declared an ‘enemy’ of the ‘Burmese Revolution’.
The two great powers have much to gain by giving up their Cold War rivalry and helping rebuild a stable post-junta country.
Defying stereotypes of helplessness, victims of junta violence are overcoming trauma and exploitation to forge new lives on the Thai border.
Denying junta media reports of cooperation is easy, but would the UNFPA and other agencies pass this three-part accountability test?
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