Resistance groups in western Mandalay Region have shown signs of greater coordination and effectiveness, but there’s still a long way to go to replicate the successes of their comrades in the north.
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Resistance groups in western Mandalay Region have shown signs of greater coordination and effectiveness, but there’s still a long way to go to replicate the successes of their comrades in the north.
BY Frontier
An economist who prized people over numbers, Paul left behind a legacy in Myanmar that is celebrated by his colleagues, students and friends.
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Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.
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The $1.5 billion hydropower dam, the Shan State-based Shweli-3 project, was a 671-megawatt project in Shan State that was still in its early stages of development.
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Residents say life has become too terrifying to stay in Yangon, where martial law has been declared over six townships and police and soldiers have begun pulling people from their homes and forcing them to clear roads at gunpoint.
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Despite a bloody crackdown in the Yangon factory suburb and a max exodus of migrant workers, residents say they will continue their protests until the military is overthrown.
BY Frontier
Many see a growing online movement to ostracise the families of Tatmadaw generals as retribution for the decades of social exclusion previous juntas have foisted on the families of dissidents.
The ousted civilian leader's lawyer called the allegations "groundless and illogical", and said most people in Myanmar will not believe them.
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The parents of the 16-year-old, who was on her way to buy vegetables, tried frantically for six hours to get her to a hospital not run by the institution responsible for shooting her in the head, but ultimately couldn't.
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As the military seeks to consolidate power, it is increasingly targeting journalists with lawsuits and violence in order to stop them from reporting the truth about what’s happening in Myanmar.
BY Frontier
Some 400 miles across the country, a Chin soldier stationed in Yangon also defected and has gone into hiding; all say they're defying orders to use lethal force against unarmed civilians.
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A Frontier photographer reports on a terrifying and deadly day in the western Yangon township, when dozens of pro-democracy protesters were killed on March 14.
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