Opinion

Sellouts and false prophets: Cinema in the Myanmar revolution

The coup is worsening the long-standing tendency to judge cultural output – and film in particular – based on moral convictions.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: By invoking the death penalty, the junta only condemns itself

Executing prisoners may seem like just another day at the office for Myanmar’s murderous junta but it would be a deeply provocative act that will worsen the country’s deadly political crisis.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

Don’t help the junta rewrite history

Min Aung Hlaing’s power grab made Myanmar’s COVID-19 Delta outbreak in mid-2021 even worse. Military doctors should not be given an international platform to claim credit for containing the virus.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

If the National Unity Government wants to be taken seriously on the international stage, it needs to put forward a coherent, united, powerful vision for Myanmar’s future.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

An international terrorism monitor missed the mark when it labeled a resistance attack on soldiers as terrorism, and may only serve to embolden the real terrorists in Myanmar: the military.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Mitch McConnell says he supports democracy in Burma, but he has been slow to act, and his prominent position in shaping policy means he is dragging the US response down with him.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

The AA’s demand for confederacy status seems a bridge too far for either the National Unity Government or the junta, but the group says it will achieve its goal through any means necessary.

BY Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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.

News Feed, News

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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