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The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

Features

The people’s grief and their right to closure

By Oliver Slow

Opinion

John Okell: Remembering a ‘gentle giant’ of Burmese teaching

The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.

By Luke Corbin

Opinion

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

By Ben Dunant

UN Security Council meets on latest Rakhine violence

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By AFP

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Protecting our children

Innovative water filtration techniques are being pioneered in Rakhine State in response to deadly cases of diarrhoea among children.

By Jennifer Macintyre

News Feed, News

'Systematic' Myanmar abuses fuelling ARSA insurgency, says UN

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By AFP

News Feed

စစ်ဖက်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဖို့ တပ်မတော် ဆန္ဒရှိနေတဲ့ ရခိုင်အရေး ဆုံမှတ်ဝေးဆဲလား

အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေကြေညာနိုင်ဖို့ လက်ရှိအစိုးရလက်ထက်မှာ တစ်ကြိမ်မှ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်းမရှိသေးတဲ့ အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးနဲ့ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအစည်းအဝေးကို ခေါ်ယူခွင့်ရှိတဲ့ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတဖက်က ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးစေချင်တယ်လို့လည်း တပ်မတော်ဖက်အရာရှိကြီးတွေဖက်က ထုတ်ပြောကြပါတယ်။

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Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

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Features

Out of the wild: Myanmar’s controversial plan to harvest endangered species

Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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By Oliver Slow

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By Ben Dunant

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