The Irrawaddy English editor Kyaw Zwa Moe describes his escape from Myanmar, and his determination not to be silenced by the country’s military junta.
For a second year, the Myanmar people defied the junta, largely alone. Will the encouraging words from the US and the UN that ended the year be met with action...
The US-China rivalry and Ukraine war will continue to dominate headlines globally, while regionally, Myanmar’s crisis will pose a test for new ASEAN chair Indonesia.
Some pundits would have us believe that Thursday’s amnesty is a sign the regime can be reasoned with. Let’s not drink the junta’s Kool-Aid.
Singapore Foreign Minister Balakrishnan and others are wrong to characterize the conflict as a squabble between the military and NLD supporters.
Will the regime’s deadly air strike on a civilian concert in Hpakant draw ethnic armed organizations closer together to fight a common enemy?
Cambodia’s decision not to name the military junta as responsible for the latest violence and atrocities caps a year of disappointment for the Myanmar people.
Unlike their ethnic allies, newly formed resistance forces in central Myanmar lack an anti-aircraft capability. Supplying them with one could be a game changer.
As they resist Min Aung Hlaing’s rule, Myanmar people should take heart from the words of Ukrainian President Zelensky, who looked forward to a world without Putin.
A political analyst recalls how his life intersected with those of the executed activist and his wife, first in prison and then in later periods of peril for the couple.
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