The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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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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A surgeon who quit his job at a government hospital in protest of the coup is now risking his own life to provide lifesaving care on the front lines of the conflict in Kayah State
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As economic conditions continue to decline in Myanmar's largest city, some of Yangon's inhabitants are gathering recyclable materials from the city's increasingly polluted rivers and creeks in order to survive.
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A poem about home, family and exile by Than Toe Aung.
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