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War Against the Junta
The KNLA’s successful raid on the military outpost on the Salween River in Hpapun District came just a day after the junta chief vowed to crush resistance to his rule.
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Editorial
Rank-and-file soldiers are well aware they are despised by the people and led by incompetent and corrupt generals. Morale is low and recruitment has collapsed.
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News
The assassination of Minn Tayzar Nyunt Tin is another warning to all regime tycoons and associates, says the Urban Owls group.
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War Against the Junta
The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force claims resistance groups have killed around 90 regime troops in Demoso Township this week.
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Commentary
Strategic interests have led Beijing to make its support for the Myanmar junta more explicit in recent months, but it may come to regret doing so.
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Features
With the support of well-wishers, weavers in Sagaing who lost everything in regime arson attacks hope to rise from the ashes.
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Interview
In the first part of an interview, Asia security expert Jason Tower discusses China’s evolving relationship with the Myanmar junta and northern ethnic armies.
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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World
Rights groups blame inaction for increasing violence against and slaughter of resistance members and civilian population.
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Burma
Acting battalion commander among the dead in fierce battles with PDF and resistance groups in Kayah and southern Shan State.
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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World
PTTEP is given 30 days to comply with demand or face arbitration proceedings in Singapore.
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Interview
The general secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy told The Irrawaddy that the junta’s proposed election will be meaningless unless it brings positive change.
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Burma
FPNCC urged to talk with Min Aung Hlaing, but truce with military regime seen as unlikely.
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Burma
Kayah special forces claim to have raided eight regime bases in recent months.
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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World
President Joko Widodo hints that ASEAN’s chair is now implementing plan to engage with all stakeholders in the country.
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Burma
Any meeting with Suu Kyi is likely to concern whether the National League for Democracy should register under the junta’s new law for political parties.