Category Dictatorship
‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war
Guardian, 31 March 2025 Anina is, in many ways, a typical teenager. She loves her boyfriend, cartoons and football – she supports Manchester City. Until recently, TikTok dancing brightened her days. “Any kind of dancing,” she says. When the Guardian met her she was about to turn 18 and was on crutches, her ankle twisted […]
‘Inch by inch’: Myanmar rebels close in on key military base in Chin State
Al Jazeera, 15 March 2025 Falam Township, Chin State — In the mountains of western Myanmar, photographs of fallen fighters line the wall of a rebel headquarters – an honour roll of some 80 young men, beginning with 28-year-old Salai Cung Naw Piang who was killed in May 2021. The true toll on the Chin […]
‘They plucked out his eye with a motorbike key … I wanted to kill them’
The Times, 4 March 2025 Everyone in the Myanmar resistance knows the brutality of the country’s ruling junta, but even by their standards the cruelty inflicted on Timothy and Isaac was difficult to comprehend. They were found in the town of Falam in the far west of the country, where a battle is raging between […]
Los drones cambian la dinámica de la guerra en Myanmar
El Pais, 16 January 2025 Si el perfil de Key determinara su destino, estaría trabajando ahora en un laboratorio de innovación tecnológica. Sin embargo, este joven de 25 años, con gafas, meticuloso y experto en informática, entrega su vida en el taller de una selva camuflado con bambú desde donde construye aviones no tripulados. “Hacemos […]
Soldier students: Job training gives hope to Myanmar’s military defectors
Al Jazeera, 23 November 2024 Myanmar-Thailand border – At a secret gathering above a cafe in a town on the Myanmar-Thailand border, Ko Aye examined the inside of an Android phone alongside 10 fellow defectors from Myanmar’s military and police forces. The trainer, an ex-captain in the Myanmar army, guided the group through the process of […]
Muslims join Buddhist, Christian fighters to topple Myanmar’s military
Al Jazeera, 19 October Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town still under the control of the Myanmar military – their adversary. While this is a familiar sight in the region, where the struggle against the military […]
Life in Myanmar’s resistance-held areas
Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2024 TANINTHARYI TOWNSHIP, Myanmar — The fading banner of Aung San Suu Kyi has seen better days. Riddled with bullet holes, it hangs outside the office of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy in Le Thit, a half-abandoned village on the banks of the Tanintharyi River in southern Myanmar. The NLD office […]
Western volunteers join the battle against Myanmar’s military regime
Al Jazeera, 17 May 2024 An ex-British soldier and an American fighter are among a small but growing number of foreigners training and fighting alongside anti-coup forces in the war against Myanmar’s military regime. The volunteers say they were inspired by Myanmar’s resistance, which has stood up to one of the most brutal and well-equipped […]
Myanmar junta soldiers left hiding in the bushes after humiliating defeats
The Sunday Times, 12 April 2024 From the Thai side of the bridge, they are invisible, but everyone knows they are there: Myanmar junta soldiers, about 200 of them, skulking along the bank of the Moei River. Until this week, they were part of the government forces defending Myawaddy, one of Myanmar’s most important trading […]
Myanmar’s rebels see unity as key to victory over weakened military rulers
Al Jazeera, 3 February 2024 Karen State, Myanmar – A young fighter looks out from the upper floor in a concrete skeleton of a church that villagers have been building for two years in this small pocket of southeast Myanmar. The construction work has been a slow undertaking, said 21-year-old Zayar, a member of Myanmar’s Muslim […]
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