Category politics
Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention
Guardian, 18 June 2025 Rare footage of Aung San Suu Kyi inside a Myanmar courtroom and detailed records of her daily prison routine have been seen by the Guardian, offering a glimpse into the life of the country’s ousted civilian leader as she nears her 80th birthday. Since the military seized power in February 2021, little has been […]
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 […]
‘Putin, here I am’: man accused of targeting Trump had ‘delusional ideas’ about helping Ukraine
Guardian, 16 September 2024 In April 2022, a little over a month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a stream of middle-aged European and American volunteers were passing through Poland on their way into Ukraine. There was the retired attorney delivering sweets to Ukrainian orphanages; the Irish former French Foreign Legion soldier carrying luggage for refugees, and […]
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 […]
Defections from Myanmar military slow as generals tighten grip
Al Jazeera, 7 March 2023 Mizoram, India – Aung Pyae paces outside the hillside clinic on India’s remote border with Myanmar. The crackle of gunfire between his former comrades in the military and pro-democracy fighters a few hundred metres away in his homeland has eased, and all Aung Pyae can hear now are the moans of […]
‘We are not afraid’: anti-junta groups rail against Myanmar executions
Guardian, 26 July 2022 On Monday night at 8pm, the familiar, defiant sound of clashing pots and pans returned to the streets of Yangon. In the aftermath of last year’s coup, the same din was heard nightly as people demanded the return of democracy – until the military launched brutal crackdowns against any such acts […]
‘People were going crazy’: Myanmar detainees recount military’s cruelty
Guardian, 31 March 2021 Freed protesters and a journalist detained by the junta describe beatings and squalid conditions Released from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty under the military dictatorship that is opposed by most of the population. Hnin, 23, was arrested along with 400 other young people in […]
Reporting from Myanmar: ‘The future has never been darker’
Guardian, 15 March 2021 Two journalists reflect on the danger, fear and uncertainty that now characterise life in the country – and the risks people are taking to access information ‘It is strange to write about joy amid the daily killings’ It started with people nervously waiting outside a KFC for the first brave activists […]
Myanmar’s besieged resistance dreams of ‘people’s army’ to counter junta
Guardian, 20 March 2021 On the barricades and in border hideouts there is a growing mood to take the fight to the military after the coup that has left more than 200 dead. As an adolescent, Aung, 27, wanted to enlist in the Myanmar military until his family spelt out the horrors of the institution. Now, he […]
Myanmar coup: witnesses describe killing of protesters as unrest continues
Guardian, 21 February 2021 Witnesses have described the moment Myanmar’s security forces opened fire on protesters, killing two people, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets again on Sunday in defiance of the military. A young man and a teenage boy are believed to have been killed in Mandalay on Saturday when […]
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