Since the coup, an already sinister list has become much darker, with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing outdoing even his evil predecessors.
The ‘great game’ in Myanmar has become more complex, with Russia behind the junta, the West backing the NUG and Beijing playing all sides, amid a worsening China-US rift.
How many brave souls must follow Ko Jimmy, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thura Zaw to the gallows before Myanmar is rid of the...
Enjoying impunity at home and indifference from abroad, Min Aung Hlaing is living up to his boast that there is ‘nothing’ he ‘dare not do’.
Prak Sokhonn has proved to be a good listener to the regime while remaining deaf to popular sentiment and utterly failing to grasp the reality on the ground in Myanmar.
The US and the rest of the international community call the Myanmar regime ‘a bunch of thugs’ but they have failed to take meaningful action to punish the thugs.
By moving her to prison, the generals believe they have finally gotten rid of the 77-year-old forever.
Images and video from Sagaing offer proof that atrocities are being committed against civilians by the Tatmadaw—and that these armed thugs aren’t worthy of the name.
Political commentator Naing Khit predicted with a heavy heart in June last year that why the junta would surely execute leading activists Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw. More than one...
The answer is simple: Min Aung Hlaing is afraid.
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