Opinion

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.

BY Frontier

News Feed, Education, Opinion

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.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Features, Opinion

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

Opinion

The NUG must commit to human rights for all Myanmar’s people

To secure international support and an inclusive future, the National Unity Government must pledge to defend the rights of everyone in the country – including the Rohingya.

BY Laetitia van den Assum & Sean Bain

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Myanmar’s COVID-19 response needs a dose of reality

Prolonged lockdown measures are wreaking great harm and people are fed up. The government needs to ditch this blunt tool for a more surgical approach.

BY Frontier

magazine, News Feed, News, Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Military involvement in politics is the real barrier to Rohingya citizenship

Only when the Tatmadaw is brought under civilian control can the government address Rohingya citizenship claims. Until then, international pressure tactics won’t help. By SITHU.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

magazine, 2020 Election, News, Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The NLD’s triumph was about more than Aung San Suu Kyi

The popularity of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Kyi was certainly a factor in the NLD’s resounding election success, but so too was fighting corruption, progress in economic development and an ill-advised intervention by the Tatmadaw chief.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

magazine, 2020 Election, Backpage, News, Opinion

The UEC and the abuse of power

The Union Election Commission’s disturbing behaviour towards journalists stirs memories of military rule, when it was dangerous to question those in authority.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

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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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