The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.
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The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.
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Mainstream discussions of transitional justice in Myanmar emphasise future punishment at the expense of dialogue, introspection and structural change.
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The auctioning of the imprisoned leader’s Yangon house at the behest of her estranged brother is a legal farce, lawyers say, while pro-democracy veterans insist it must be preserved for public memory.
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As conflict consumes much of the state, crowds throng the Pyi Thar Lin Aye pagoda to cheer on local practitioners of traditional Myanmar boxing, or lethwei, under the watch of rival armed groups.
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A heated debate over whether to one day punish civil servants working for the military regime has engulfed the Civil Disobedience Movement, raising important questions about justice and reconciliation.
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Vast blooms of jellyfish are appearing off Myanmar’s southern coast for the first time in six years, delighting hard-pressed fishing communities exporting to Thailand, but soaring costs and unfair trade terms sting.
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Independent journalists risk death and prison in Myanmar, but the military and its allies are adept at finding media lackeys willing to toe the line and parrot their propaganda – for a price.
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Pa-O residents say a military-aligned militia is increasingly relying on compulsory conscription and extortion to build up its forces as Myanmar’s post-coup conflict penetrates deeper in southern Shan State.
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A Chinese state-owned company and the military regime are quietly pushing forward with a railway line that would run through active conflict zones, after lengthy delays due to Myanmar’s wariness, COVID-19 and then the coup.
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In a new book, a former Frontier editor explains how the Myanmar military has preserved its power over decades, the terrible cost this has inflicted on the country and what the world should do about it.
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With a mass boycott of public schools entering its third year, the parallel government is scrambling to fine-tune alternatives to junta-run education, while lower-income families find it increasingly difficult to stay away.
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The Shanni Nationalities Army has been accused of aiding the Myanmar military since the coup, but its supporters say the group is defending against persecution by the Kachin Independence Army.
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