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Keeping education going in a conflict zone

The recent beheading of a National Unity Government teacher in Magway Region highlights dangers faced by teachers and students in conflict zones. Students, parents and education officials speak out in Gangaw District, despite phone and internet restrictions.

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‘I am scared’: Children in Tanintharyi traumatised by violence

The United Nations has warned that Myanmar’s children could become a lost generation. Since the military coup, at least a quarter of a million have had to flee from their homes, hundreds have been arrested, and hundreds killed. There are many more who have witnessed horrific violence, which psychologists say could leave them deeply traumatised.

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Aid cuts drive displaced northern Shan youths into child labour

Humanitarian aid reaching northern Shan IDP camps has plummeted in the last year, forcing some children to forgo their educations and find work to support their families.

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Senior citizens failing to make ends meet in the downturn

Elderly people are struggling to keep up with Myanmar's burgeoning cost of living. Sources of support have disappeared since the coup, leaving many with no income at all.

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Childhood diseases spread as vaccinations fall

Many children in Myanmar are falling sick with preventable diseases because they've not had their routine vaccinations, and families in remote and conflict areas are worst affected.

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‘They are like prisoners’: Defectors’ tales of life inside the army

Army defectors say internal abuses within the armed forces could backfire on the regime.

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

As conflict escalates between resistance and junta forces in Sagaing and Magway regions, junta-appointed administrators are forcing employers in Yangon and Mandalay to fire workers from those areas in what appears to be a form of collective punishment.

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

More evidence of junta troops committing apparent war crimes is being collected in Kayin State, residents say, with civilians subjected to beatings, arbitrary arrest and.

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Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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