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On This Day
On this day in 1995, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from six years of house arrest ordered by the former junta.
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Burma
Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, who is also the ousted Mandalay Region Chief Minister, faces new case under Anti-Corruption Law.
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Analysis
After five months of worsening instability on its border, Beijing would be open to a negotiated settlement, some NLD insiders say.
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Guest Column
The NLD, NUG and CRPH should coordinate with ethnic civil society leaders, who have the infrastructure in place to help people affected by conflict, COVID and poverty.
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Guest Column
Do the Tatmadaw’s generals and their cohorts believe the absurd fictions they use to justify their takeover and repressive rule? The answer is probably yes.
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Burma
The couple, who had just come out of hiding, were on a list of targets published by a pro-regime Pyu Saw Htee group in the neighborhood.
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Burma
76-year-old NLD information secretary Monywa Aung Shin was arrested almost five months ago and his wife has heard nothing from him since then.
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Commentary
Because it came at a time of such hope, the most recent coup feels harder to bear psychologically than its predecessors. But history shows that the people will prevail.
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Burma
Addressing an international conference in Moscow, coup maker Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing repeated his discredited claim that the NLD rigged last year’s election.
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Burma
Kin Ma Village in Magwe Region was set on fire on June 15 by regime forces, killing an elderly couple and leaving 1,000 villagers homeless.
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Guest Column
If the nature of the conflict can be maintained as a national uprising, the military balance favors revolution by sheer force of numbers and willpower.
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Commentary
Detained yet again by the generals who despise her, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s only ‘mistake’ has been to honor her commitment to the people who chose her as their leader.
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Guest Column
The detained State Counselor is a global force for democracy. We must stand with—and for—her and the people of her country.
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Burma
State Counselor told her lawyers she would not accept support from the junta that ousted her NLD government.
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Burma
Dr. Aung Moe Nyo, who is also the National League for Democracy’s secretary, faces an additional charge under the Natural Disaster Management Law.