Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
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Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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Members of ethnic communities say that being allowed to learn their own language in schools would help improve trust with the country’s Bamar majority.
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It is time for Bamar people to show greater respect toward their ethnic compatriots by teaching their languages and creating better understanding of their cultures.
BY Htet Win
It is astounding that a law with a clause so vague and so clearly at odds with respect for fundamental human rights was approved by the last parliament.
Divisions within the Karen National Union over the signing of the nationwide ceasefire last October appear to be behind the decision to postpone a leadership election until after the next Panglong conference in February.
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