The latest exodus of reluctant exiles from Myanmar comprises young people forced to leave everything behind to escape becoming frontline cannon fodder for the junta.
Despite some striking similarities, there are crucial differences between the current uprising against military rule and the anti-regime resistance of the 1980s and ’90s.
Five PDF members injured in the armed struggle to defeat the junta reflect on their journey to the front lines and their continued belief that the people will prevail.
The surviving children have vivid memories of seeing their friends killed by junta helicopters; many now feel terror at the sound of aircraft.
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.
Since the coup, an already sinister list has become much darker, with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing outdoing even his evil predecessors.
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...
More than one month before the junta’s execution of leading activists Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw on this day in 2022, The Irrawaddy’s Executive Editor Kyaw Zwa Moe—at that time...
U Soe Thane, once hailed as the int’l face of U Thein Sein’s 2011 reforms, writes in his latest book that the military should have overthrown the NLD govt much...
The people will continue to fight to restore the election result that was stolen from them in 2020.
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