From the Archive

To mark World Press Freedom Day, The Irrawaddy presents a compendium of its articles on press freedom and the repression of independent media, published over the years.

Three years on, The Irrawaddy revisits its coverage of Armed Forces Day in 2021, which saw the junta ramp up its deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters.

To mark the 36th anniversary of the deaths of RIT students Ko Phone Maw and Ko Soe Naing, The Irrawaddy revisits an article published in March 2018.

To mark the third anniversary of the funeral of slain anti-coup protester Kyal Sin, The Irrawaddy revisits a March 2021 commentary on the then-nascent Spring Revolution.

In honor of late political prisoner Ma Noble Aye, who was reportedly killed in detention by junta troops in Bago Region’s Waw Township early this month, The Irrawaddy revisits an...

In remembrance of Wolfgang H. Trost, who dies on Feb. 17, The Irrawaddy revisits his article about a vanishing ethnic group in the country.

The Irrawaddy revisits a commentary published in the wake of the Karen leader’s assassination in February 2008.

No action has ever been taken against the perpetrators of the attack by pro-junta thugs on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s convoy, which killed at least 70 NLD supporters in...

To mark Tuesday’s 20th anniversary of the massacre, The Irrawaddy revisits an interview from 2003 in which a survivor recalls the deadly attack on an NLD convoy.

To mark the 107th anniversary of her birth yesterday, The Irrawaddy revisits a 2002 profile of the pioneering Myanmar journalist and political dissenter.