Myanmar is steeped in trauma from past and present conflict and dictatorial rule – but with the breakdown of already meagre public health infrastructure since the 2021 coup, communities themselves are acquiring the tools to tackle the mental toll.
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Myanmar is steeped in trauma from past and present conflict and dictatorial rule – but with the breakdown of already meagre public health infrastructure since the 2021 coup, communities themselves are acquiring the tools to tackle the mental toll.
BY Frontier
The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.
BY Frontier
Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
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More than a year after the first anti-coup militias began to form and wage armed struggle against Myanmar’s military regime, young activists continue to stage peaceful protests in the streets despite brutal repression.
BY Frontier
The military has taken over Myanmar’s courts and moved them inside prisons to prosecute anti-regime activists, as calls grow for judges to join the mass strike of civil servants.
BY Frontier
As the economy continues to struggle under the junta's mismanagement, people in Myanmar are now contending with daily power outages and water shortages.
BY AFP
Military-linked social media accounts, mainly on Telegram, continue to dox activists and encourage violence, including assassinations. Although one of the most controversial accounts was recently removed from the platform, critics say Telegram is still not doing enough to regulate content.
With most charity groups in hiding and regular blood donors afraid or unwilling to donate at state-run facilities, illegal “blood brokers” are increasingly preying on those in need amid a blood shortage.
BY Frontier
More than a year since the military pushed peaceful protests toward armed resistance, there is no visible end to Myanmar’s expanded civil war.
BY Frontier
Western-led state-building initiatives in Myanmar have long promoted a neoliberal model of development and democratisation that has inadvertently benefited the military over everyone else in Myanmar.
BY Minn Tent Bo
The Gambia dismissed arguments by the Myanmar military’s legal team, which claimed that the International Court of Justice does not have jurisdiction to rule on.
BY AFP
Since the coup, security forces have protected the wealthy and well-connected in the capital, and left everyone else to deal with a rising crime wave on their own.
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