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.
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As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.
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Ill-treatment is rife, the food is bad and hygiene is sub-standard in the infamous Yangon prison that has long been the butt of grim word-play humour about “going insane”.
BY Oliver Slow
Under military rule, Myanmar developed a system that was a fusion of cronyism and militarism, and as a result the economy has come to be dominated by corruption and rent seeking.
BY Naing Ko Ko
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard unimaginable accounts of atrocities during a visit to Bangladesh's refugee camps and called for Myanmar to be held responsible.
BY AFP
Myanmar under military rule was synonymous with political prisoners.
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Frontier interns Khine Me Me Win and Season Myo Kyaw ask Yangon residents for their views on health and education reform since the transition to civilian rule: what has changed, what has worked and what still needs to be done.
The quest among "amber hunters" for the discovery of dinosaur remains captivates palaeontologists but also fuels a decades-long conflict in Kachin State.
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