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Interview
Janes’ Anthony Davis says Myanmar’s highly motivated PDFs have taken their resistance against an arrogant and ineffective Myanmar military into a crucial second phase.
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Guest Column
If the international community places concerted pressure on the junta and isolates it completely, the military will be forced to make concessions.
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Interview
Khun Be Du, KNDF leader and an NUG deputy minister, talks to The Irrawaddy about the success of the resistance movement in Kayah State and the prospects for a federal democratic un
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Burma
Both the NLD and the US State Department say there is no chance that any poll held by the regime will be free and fair.
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Burma
Defying international calls for death sentences against Ko Jimmy, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and two others to be dropped, the junta vowed to proceed with their executions.
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Burma
The shadow govt and three ethnic groups said the junta must not be allowed to ‘weaponize’ humanitarian aid and urged ASEAN to work with the ICRC and neighboring nations.
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Interview
Acting President of the National Unity Government Duwa Lashi La speaks to The Irrawaddy about what the people’s government has achieved since it was formed.
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Burma
Khun Tun Oo, the former Shan Nationalities League for Democracy chairman, has died of natural causes after a lifetime working to establish a federal democracy.
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Analysis
A loose federation based on overlapping ethnicities and common values, with an illegitimate central government, is being created by the junta’s blunders.
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Guest Column
Global aid donors such as the United Nations and the European Union appear to believe that it is business as usual in a Myanmar under military rule.
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Guest Column
Much-needed humanitarian assistance is still not reaching the almost half a million people in the country displaced by fighting.
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From the Archive
To mark the 77th Armed Forces Day today, The Irrawaddy revisits a 2017 profile of the WWII Japanese officer who was instrumental in creating Myanmar’s modern military.
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From the Archive
To mark the death of Madeleine Albright earlier this week, The Irrawaddy revisits this 2013 account of a visit to Myanmar by the former US Secretary of State.
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Burma
Cambodia foreign minister Prak Sokhonn was told by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing that the military intervened to stop unrest.
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Burma
Mai Noam Han, his wife and seven-month-old baby were found dead last week in southern Shan State two months after going missing, allegedly killed by an ethnic armed group.