Myanmar civil war

Myanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, even as foreign support becomes more difficult to secure.

The coming together of areas inhabited by communities in India’s Mizoram and Myanmar’s Chin State has New Delhi’s tacit support. Myanmar’s junta is not amused.

Starved of outside support, resistance groups have been forced to adopt low-cost solutions to battlefield challenges.

The case of CMEC and other Chinese business activities in Myanmar show how exposed China is to escalating conflict risks, and offer insight to the role it is playing in the ongoing civil war. 

But they may not be enough to prevent an impending crisis in Arakan brought on by scarcity of essential commodities and soaring prices.

In the region of Myanmar now held by the Arakan Army, the impacts of war and decades of economic neglect are easily visible.

Interviews with resistance soldiers, activists, and internally displaced civilians in the KNU-controlled jungle reveal a life that blurs the line between resistance and routine.

As the conflict spreads to the Bamar heartland, there are growing reports of abuses and internecine fighting among resistance groups.

“We are always in favor of repatriation [of Rohingya Muslims] in principle, and there should be voluntary, dignified, and safe repatriation under conducive conditions.”

The military regime collaborated with the Rohingya terror group to defend Buthidaung against the Arakan Army, according to a captured Myanmar military major.

The hands-off approach to the ongoing conflict in Myanmar is a significant foreign policy mistake.

Rohingya youth in refugee camps in Bangladesh face intimidation and forced recruitment by gangs, coercing them to join the very army that uprooted them.

Boat transportation to the island has been suspended following gunfire from Myanmar, once again dragging Dhaka into its neighbor's civil war.

Greening says anti-regime forces could capture the Irrawaddy Basin and eventually declare victory over the junta.

Under Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, there are signs that the country is finally taking a more active role in helping resolve the multifaceted crisis next door.

Dhaka has three options: maintain the status quo, work with the AA, or take a proactive stance in containing the AA’s advance.

From troops crossing the border to shells landing on Bangladeshi soil, Myanmar's civil war continues to spill into Bangladesh – and beyond.

The 2022 U.N. Security Council resolution has not become the hoped-for on-ramp to stronger action, but rather the feeble peak of council activity on a country in harrowing crisis.

Visits to four different locations in Myanmar, all in varying stages of control by resistance groups.

The current resistance is led by tech-savvy middle-class youth who have tasted democracy and will not rest till it is restored.

With the state absent in many areas, doctors and nurses who were working in hospitals before the coup have stepped in to provide treatment in NUG facilities.

The extension is an admission that the military has failed to quell the broad-based armed resistance to its rule.

A woman resistance fighter and trainer talks to The Diplomat about the guerrilla movement and the future of Myanmar.

The city in northwestern Myanmar was one of the first to see anti-coup protests – and also among the first to see pitched battles between resistance fighters and the military.