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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 […]
Myanmar’s conscription plan backfires as young people flee to join rebel army
The Telegraph, 16 April 2024 Sitting on flimsy plastic chairs in an old town hall with holes in the roof and flaking paint on the walls, a dozen young people wait patiently for their turn to join Myanmar’s rebel army. As they kill time, they compare notes about the junta-controlled cities and villages they have come from. […]
Sun, sea and civil war: holidaying in Myanmar
Nikkei Asian Review, 3 August 2022 In the grand lobby of a Yangon hotel, a senior Myanmar tourism official told me she was meeting government officials to “rebrand” the country to focus international attention on pristine beaches instead of conflict and military atrocities. It was March 2018, and Myanmar was governed by an elected civilian […]
Fear turns to fury in Myanmar as children shot by military
Guardian, 28 March 2021 From soldiers randomly shooting passersby in the street to imminent economic collapse, anxieties have been plentiful in Myanmar since its military seized power on 1 February. But unease was surging ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday when the military was expected to meet protesters with a brutal crackdown. These expectations were more […]
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 […]
‘We all know what we’re facing’: divided Myanmar unites against coup
Guardian, 10 February 2021 The Myanmar military took power last week on the promise of “restoring eternal peace” to a country riven by seven decades of ethnic conflict. Since the takeover it has made remarkable progress in uniting the deeply divided country against a common enemy: itself. In Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, strangers greet each other with […]
The nights of pots and pans are back, on Myanmar’s fearful streets
Guardian, 2 February 2021 In Myanmar, if you want to drive evil from your home, you bang pots and pans. Yangon’s streets were filled with the din of clashing metal in 2007, when monks called for an end to military rule, and before that, in 1988 when the former president Sein Lwin, or the “butcher of Rangoon”, […]
Street vendor builds Yangon’s top seafood chain
Nikkei Asian Review, June 2020 In 1987, when Khin Khin San was 13, she began selling bowls of mont ti fish soup under the shade of a tamarind tree in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, where the rice noodle dish is fishier and fierier than elsewhere in the country. Sometimes she would hawk mont ti with […]
No sex education please, we’re Burmese: new school textbook exposes ignorance
The Sunday Times, May 2020 Burma is historically familiar with ethnic strife. But now the land of maroon-robed monks is confronting discord of a different kind, as politicians, doctors and spiritual leaders turn on each other in a ferocious row about sex. The trouble erupted over a plan to update sex education in schools, a […]
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