who refused to sign the government’s Oct. 15 ceasefire accord. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)|Red Cross worker Moe Kyaw Thein
who was injured in crossfire on the road between Laukkai and Chin Shwe Haw in the Kokang region
is carried to safety on Feb. 17. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy)|Student protesters demonstrating against the National Education Law leave Taungtha
Nov. 8. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)|Women displaced by the Burma Army’s ongoing offensive against Kachin and Shan ethnic armed groups
Mandalay Division on Jan. 28. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |A man lies on the street in protest against the government’s demolition of squats in the 168th ward of Rangoon’s Dagon Seikkan Township
Rangoon Division on Dec. 13. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |A student kisses his mother on April 7 before returning to custody in a police van after the third hearing for student protesters at Letpadan Township Court. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy)|Aung San Suu Kyi checks voter lists in Wa Thinkha village
in her Rangoon constituency of Kawhmu
Football fans watch a TV broadcast of the the SEA Games 2015 men’s final football match between Burma and Thailand outside Rangoon’s Town Hall on June 15. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |Buddhist monks from the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion
July 4. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)|A woman at a National League for Democracy campaign rally awaits the arrival of party leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myitkyina
on July 4. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |A crowd commemorates the 27th anniversary of the 1988 democracy protests outside Rangoon Town Hall on Aug. 8 (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |Locals carry relief supplies on the Gangaw-Hakha road near Chin State’s Lan Thoke village on Aug. 28
after heavy flooding and landslides across the state. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy)
Jan 30. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) |Artist Akar Kyaw spray paints a mural of General Aung San at Rangoon’s Junction Square on Feb. 13
on the date of the independence icon’s 100th birthday. (Photo: Thaw Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy) |Police attack student protesters in Letpadan
Pegu Division on March 10. (Photo:Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) |Mawleik village in Kale Township
Kachin State
also known as Ma Ba Tha
gather at Thuwunna Stadium in Rangoon on Oct. 4 to commemorate the enactment of protection of Race and Religion Laws. (Photo: Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy)|The signing ceremony of Nationwide Cease Fire Agreement was held on Oct. 15 in Naypyidaw. (Photo: Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy)|A soldier on patrol in northern Shan State
Sagaing Division on Sept. 3
Rangoon
soon after flood waters that indundated the entire village receded. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |Locals travel by boat in Nyaungdon Township
Nov. 8. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)|Photographers attempt to take a picture of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi casting her ballot in Bahan Township
Irrawaddy Division in September after flood waters inundated their homes. (Photo: Thaw Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy) |Trishaw drivers campaign for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Rangoon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt in Rangoon on Sept. 27. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |National League for Democracy chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi and party patron Tin Oo at an NLD rally in Thingangyun Township
Oct. 2. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)|A woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the 2015 election at Rangoon’s Bahan Township
Rangoon on Nov 1. (Photo: Thaw Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy)|NLD candidate Naing Ngan Lin campaigns by trishaw in the 5th ward of Thaketa Township
Rangoon
the week after he was attacked by a knife-wielding gang. (Photo: Thaw Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy) |A civil servant casts a ballot at a polling station in Naypyidaw’s Zabuthiri Township during a Nov. 8 election. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy)|NLD supporters celebrate the party’s election win on Nov. 8. (Photo: J Paing / The Irrawaddy) |NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing at the commander-in-chief’s Naypyidaw office on Dec. 2. (Photo: Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy) |Aung San Suu Kyi collects litter during during a campaign in her constituency of Kawhmu
Nationwide floods, continuing ethnic conflict in Shan and Kachin states and the NLD’s landslide election victory: The Irrawaddy’s photographic retrospective of a momentous year in Burma’s history.
