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Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is an independent journalist and regular contributor to The Diplomat.
Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is a regular contributing writer for The Diplomat, and is the author of many featured and analysis articles on politics, conflict, human rights, and issues related to the 2021 coup in Myanmar. His works have appeared in TIME, Los Angeles TImes, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and many other international publications.
He was a contributing writer for a Pulitzer Centre project on intensive armed conflict in Rakhine State during 2018-20. He is also one of the winners of the 2021 Human Rights Press Awards and the 2021 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for the Foreign Correspondence from the Society of Professional Journalist, as well as the finalist of the 2021 Society of Publisher in Asia (SOPA) awards for the Excellence in Opinion Writing. His tweets at @kyawhsanhlaing1

May 19, 2023
Arakan Rebel Government Takes Lead in Myanmar Cyclone Recovery
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

April 27, 2023
How the Arakan Army Has Capitalized on Myanmar’s Coup
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

February 10, 2023
How India Betrayed the Rakhine People – And Why It Matters Today
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

November 22, 2022
Atrocities Mount Amid the Return to War in Western Myanmar
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

September 21, 2022
Fighting in Maungdaw: A Strategic Turning Point in Western Myanmar?
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

September 10, 2021
Relief Agencies Should Push for Independent Access to Myanmar’s Rakhine State
By Laetitia Van Den Assum and Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

August 31, 2021
Arakan Army Seeks to Build ‘Inclusive’ Administration in Rakhine State
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

April 23, 2021
Global Norms Are Under Attack in Post-Coup Myanmar
By Aung Kyaw and Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

April 14, 2021
After Myanmar’s Military Coup, Arakan Army Accelerates Implementation of the ‘Way of Rakhita’
By Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
