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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With youth flocking to join the Kachin Independence Army since the Tatmadaw took power, Frontier spoke to the young Kachin who believe armed revolution is the only way forward.
On Saturday, the Karen National Union condemned the use of "excessive force by engaging in non-stop bombing and air strikes" from March 27 - 30, which have "caused the deaths of many people including children".
BY AFP
Since the weekend, the Myanmar military has launched near-daily airstrikes in Karen state, targeting strongholds of the Karen National Union (KNU) – the first such attacks in the area in 20 years.
BY AFP
NGOs have urged companies to review their presence as the military dramatically ramps up its use of lethal force against protesters.
BY AFP
Hundreds of thousands of workers have fled joblessness and state violence in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township, but without jobs waiting in their home villages a mass exodus to foreign labour markets may be on the horizon.
BY Frontier
Any progress made in land rights and environmental conservation over the past decade is in peril under the rule of a military with a long history of natural resource plunder.
BY Esther Wah
Military jets hit targets in eastern Kayin State over the weekend, as Myanmar reeled from the deadliest day so far in the junta's crackdown on anti-coup protests.
BY AFP
Selangor FC II player Hein Htet Aung was given a one-match ban for flashing a three-finger salute during a game earlier this month.
BY AFP
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