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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The prolonged deadlock in political negotiations and a reduction in hostilities have “frozen” many of Myanmar’s conflicts, but the threat of renewed fighting remains very real.
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A government worker in his early 20s spoke to Frontier’s Emily Fishbein the day before his deployment to a new duty station near a sensitive border.
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Report predicts half a million Rohingya refugees will return in two years but glosses over allegations of atrocities, ignores ongoing conflict and fails to mention the Muslim group by name.
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With the growing strength of the Arakan Army, Rakhine is descending into a conflict zone all too familiar throughout the rest of the country.
The Tatmadaw appears to be bent on a campaign to silence its critics via courts that are all too happy to process its complaints, whatever the cost to freedom of expression.
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