Sagaing Region residents equipped with single-shot traditional rifles known as “tumi guns” – and in some cases more modern weaponry – are resisting security forces’ attempts to crush anti-coup protests.
BY Frontier
Sagaing Region residents equipped with single-shot traditional rifles known as “tumi guns” – and in some cases more modern weaponry – are resisting security forces’ attempts to crush anti-coup protests.
BY Frontier
As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.
BY Frontier
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ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်အတွက် စမ်းသပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေသလို အစိုးရကို လူထုနှင့် ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သွားစေလိမ့်မည်ဖြစ်သော်လည်း တချို့ကတော့ အလျင်စလို နိုင်လွန်းမည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်။
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In the fields near Minhla in Magway Region, informal oil entrepreneurs scramble from site to site in the hope of striking lucky.
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Reducing the Tatmadaw’s huge economic stakes, particularly in natural resource extraction, is integral to ending conflict and repression in Myanmar.
For millions of smallholder farmers in Myanmar, a deadline has passed.
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A poor community cites decades of land dispossession and environmental degradation in their opposition to a Thai-operated tin mine in rural Dawei Township.
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