Drills follow surge of attacks on junta forces by ethnic armies in northern Myanmar and torching of convoy of trucks in a border town.
Read moreThe rapid victories of the Northern Alliance disprove notions that the military is both unassailable and the key to solving domestic political problems.
After the 2021 coup the donors, NGOs and CSOs of ‘Peaceland’ decamped from Yangon to Thailand, but their Western, ‘we-know-best’ narrative remains largely unchanged.
The jailing of the unlikely regime critic, a classmate of the junta’s No. 2, follows the purges of three other generals, sparking talk of a power tussle in Naypyitaw.
Operation 1027 is the culmination of 32 months of popular armed resistance; the end of a brutal military regime is in sight.
Election commission dissolves Shan State Kokang Democratic Party—the main rival of the regime-backed Union...
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