Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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With no faith in Myanmar’s broken justice system, some relatives of political prisoners are turning to superstitious practices and fortune tellers – rather than lawyers – in desperate attempts to release their loved ones.
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Myanmar conservationists urge UNESCO to take a stand to protect the Pyu Ancient Cities from conflict and looting, and Bagan’s temples and pagodas from unchecked development.
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Six men prod and poke at dense undergrowth in eastern Myanmar with rakes and hoes - not farmers, but a resistance unit clearing deadly landmines from the war raging between the junta and pro-democracy fighters.
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The coup has led to a proliferation of armed groups across central Myanmar – some of which have converted to a life of crime – leaving NUG-affiliated resistance outfits scrambling to combat a spate of kidnappings and robberies.
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Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement has involved tremendous sacrifice, but if this is not to be in vain, the movement needs to be reborn as an independent, nonviolent force focused on creating change rather than promoting divisive political identities.
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Myanmar's military regime on Sunday ordered the expulsion of East Timor’s top diplomat in the country over a meeting his government held with the parallel National Unity Government.
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Descendants of Portuguese Roman Catholics have lived peacefully in central Myanmar for centuries, but since the coup they’ve faced the cruelty of a military steeped in Buddhist nationalism.
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Internal Mon divisions and tensions with other ethnic groups have hindered resistance efforts in Mon State. But as these efforts start to take shape, locals say they could either bring people together or pull them further apart.
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Bus and truck drivers are taking ever-greater risks to do their jobs, facing arrest and extortion at checkpoints manned by various armed groups as well as the sudden eruption of fighting.
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