Editorial

Min Aung Hlaing’s crumbling military believes it can force the nation’s youth to fight a war against their own people. The regime is clearly clutching at straws.

The Operation 1027 offensive has shown that the regime’s days are numbered. The only question now is: How long before those around the junta chief acknowledge this?  

The junta continues to control the narrative with ‘pardons’, Buddha statues and prison meetings. The global community must seize back the initiative with real action.

The regime’s decision to dissolve the NLD and other political parties means that the junta’s proposed election will have zero credibility.

Rank-and-file soldiers are well aware they are despised by the people and led by incompetent and corrupt generals. Morale is low and recruitment has collapsed.  

US moves to give non-military aid to the resistance are heartening, but it will be the Myanmar people’s courage and the generals’ foolishness that bring the regime down.

The horrific massacre of nine children and six adults at a school in Sagaing Region shows that the junta’s terror campaign will spare no one.

Ending military rule forever is the only way to break a pattern dating to 1962 that has seen 10% of the country’s 54 mn people flee in search of a...

The same military that killed student activist Ma Win Maw Oo in 1988 hanged her contemporary, Ko Jimmy, in July. Today’s anti-junta resistance has inherited their spirit.

This editorial reflects the desire of the majority of Myanmar people: only the coup leader’s execution will ensure freedom, equality and justice in Myanmar.