A Woman's (Political) Work is Never Done

Myanmar’s potential remains as bright as ever. However, the country still awaits a leader bold and articulate enough to inspire his or her countrymen to seize the historic opportunity

How communists played a shadowy role in Myanmar's 1988 pro-democracy uprising.

On the 30th anniversary of the ’88 uprising, The Irrawaddy reprints an appeal it ran in the year 2000 for a full recounting of the bloodshed. Without it, Myanmar would remain a divided,

These women played key roles in the popular uprising 30 years ago or have carried on the pro-democracy movement it helped inspire.

On the 30th anniversary of the ’88 uprising, The Irrawaddy revisits an interview from 2013 with award-winning activist Min Ko Naing, one of the movement’s most prominent leader

Exactly 30 years ago, a democratic uprising took off in Rangoon that would sweep the country but end with a bloody crackdown by the military.

Stoking the popular discontent that erupted into a nationwide uprising 30 years ago was economic mismanagement, which had reduced a fundamentally wealthy nation to pauper status.

The Irrawaddy looks back at how journalists defied their military rulers 30 years ago with a month of unprecedented reporting.

It was 30 years ago that students led a massive uprising against military rule in Burma—an event that has shaped an entire generation.

The failure of the 1988 uprising points to the challenges Myanmar faced then, and still faces today.

Burma’s democracy movement needs some serious soul searching if it wants to secure its aims.

The Irrawaddy remembers Nay Min—not among 1988’s canonized pro-democracy crusaders, but pivotal in informing the world about the events of that year.

Burmese comedians’ political satire reveals how the people think and how their rulers live in fear.