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‘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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Warming up to Uncle Sam
(AsiaLIFE cover, November 2015) Twenty years ago the US and Vietnam agreed to normalise relations. Lorcan Lovett looks at the extraordinary partnership formed by the two countries since then. Photos by Vinh Dao. There was a time when former US Marine Reginald Carnes, 66, and former Viet Cong fighter Be Tu, 67, were sworn enemies. Both […]
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