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Refugees need to have control over their own destinies

Refugee-led governance in the camps on the Thai-Myanmar border is holding communities together amid cuts in international funding, raising the question of why refugees are left out of decisions.

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Now more than ever, Myanmar needs consistent international support

The United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator ad interim in Myanmar reflects on her first months in the country and what is needed to support the people amid conflict and a multifaceted crisis.

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Frontier founder to return as CEO

Frontier’s board of directors has today appointed Sonny Swe as CEO, marking his return to the media organisation he founded over a decade ago.

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Pardons are a political tool in the hands of the regime

Since the coup, Min Aung Hlaing has wielded laws as weapons to enable the arbitrary arrest of tens of thousands of people opposing his rule, while using mass amnesties as a tool for political gain.

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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

A split in the Tatmadaw has until now been considered unlikely but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.

BY Ye Myo Hein

Myanmar: Failed state or failed nation?

The recent talk of Myanmar being a “failed state” overlooks a potentially bigger issue: that the people of Myanmar do not share a sense of a united Myanmar identity despite decades of effort by military and civilian governments alike to cultivate one.

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The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

The overwhelming rejection of state education since the coup has spawned the emergence of learning alternatives, including plans for both physical and virtual universities.

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Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

When the killing of defiant protesters began in Myanmar earlier this year, it prompted an evacuee from Beijing after Tiananmen to recall a sign in a Hong Kong jewellery shop 32 years ago.

BY Geoffrey Goddard

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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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