Opinion

International aid should support revolutionary education, not junta schools

While there are no easy choices, support for junta-run schools risks legitimising the regime, boosting the harmful effects of its education system and diverting support from better alternatives.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Mourning James C. Scott, a Sterling anarchist and friend of Myanmar

The American radical scholar and author of The Art of Not Being Governed and other seminal books once dodged death threats in Yangon and rode a vintage motorcycle to Mandalay.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Staying online in Myanmar is a matter of life and death

Civilians and resistance groups have pursued a range of technical workarounds in the face of prolonged internet blackouts, each of which has its own strengths and drawbacks.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Searching for truth and rice in America

Frontier reporter Hein Thar reflects on a recent journalism exchange trip to the United States, and his hopes for Myanmar’s own media development.

BY Frontier

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Opinion

Time to begin dismantling movement restrictions in Rakhine

A new report has detailed how movement restrictions are devastating the lives of Rohingya in Rakhine and helping to maintain their enforced segregation from the state’s other ethnic groups.

BY Laetitia van den Assum

Opinion

Factory workers suffer blame and pain in Myanmar’s COVID-19 response

Workers have been bearing the brunt of measures imposed to counter the pandemic and their plight has been compounded by poor governance and hostility towards organised labour.

BY Ye Yint Khant Maung

Opinion

Myanmar and the Rohingya: time for a domestic reckoning

A public reassessment of the Rohingya crisis will require deeply uncomfortable conversations to be held in the open, and great courage and humility on the part of many prominent figures.

BY Frontier

Opinion

We, the Rohingya, can’t wait for justice from faraway courts

Expectations about international justice are unrealistically high among Rohingya in the camps in Bangladesh, and the case before the ICJ is likely to end in disappointment.

BY Frontier

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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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