Defying stereotypes of helplessness, victims of junta violence are overcoming trauma and exploitation to forge new lives on the Thai border.
Denying junta media reports of cooperation is easy, but would the UNFPA and other agencies pass this three-part accountability test?
Launch of political and diplomatic offensives is urgent if the National Unity Government and ethnic armed allies are to retain momentum of Operation 1027.
As the fighting intensifies in Myanmar, Thailand faces the prospect of hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking shelter across the border.
Regime propaganda goes into overdrive after pistol-toting Min Aung Hlaing visits region’s safest town to meet injured soldiers and give cash, food and other aid to internally displaced people.
How will Marcoluigi Corsi justify to Myanmar’s heroic striking health care workers his nod for UN agencies and INGOs to participate in this junta propaganda stunt?
Beijing’s commitment to the junta and its influence on ethnic armies are both being tested by the chaos enveloping its southern neighbor.
The battlefield tactics and level of coordination being displayed by its adversaries are unlike anything the military has encountered before. Part 2 of a two-part series.
Is the downfall of the junta really imminent? Four factors must be taken into account when making a realistic assessment of the situation.
For the first time ever, the Myanmar military is under attack in 12 of the country’s 14 states and regions. Has it finally met its match? Part 1 of a two-part...
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