Opinion

Desperate to quell discontent within the military, Min Aung Hlaing’s tour of regional commands and stepped up bombing of rebel-held areas are for internal consumption.

China’s efforts to stabilize and restore peace in Myanmar are undermined by the junta’s escalation of the conflict and anti-Chinese sentiment among Myanmar people. 

More and more internally displaced people escape the fighting to Yangon, where they face precarious livelihoods, extortion from corrupt Myanmar junta officials and price-gouging from letting agents, writes Thar Oo.

As the Arakan Army marches to victory in its ethnic heartland, lying in its path over the border are the regime’s ordnance factories.   

For all their success against the junta, the ethnic armies of northern Shan and Rakhine are not part of a broader united front fighting for a common, nationwide goal.

Junta airstrikes on civilians shortly after talks with all three powers demonstrate their complicity in a brutal campaign targeting Myanmar’s populace.

A more powerful and assertive China is increasingly flexing its political and military muscles and raising tensions with both Taiwan and across the border in Myanmar.

Beijing signals willingness to send in troops to border region as ethnic armies tighten noose on junta’s Central Command in second city of Mandalay.   

Confusion on the ground in Rakhine State and among commentators from abroad obscures the fact that Rohingya and Rakhine need to unite against their common enemy, the Myanmar junta.

The final installment in a three-part series examining the evolution of resistance to Myanmar’s three military coups from limited protest to full-blown revolution.