Myanmar coup 2021

Is the Tatmadaw getting overstretched?

Danny Fenster, the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, could face up to life in prison when additional charges are factored in.

The post-coup resistance movement has its sights set on toppling the Tatmadaw once and for all – including by weakening the military from within.

Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime, even while Myanmar battles a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Myanmar's health care system is largely broken amid widespread resistance to the military's February coup. Richardson was in the country to discuss delivery of humanitarian aid.

There is no shortage of challenges in Asia these days, from the pandemic, to Myanmar to increasing U.S.-China tensions.

A U.S.-led coalition that intensifies this pressure could change the course of Myanmar’s protracted human rights disaster. 

Former President Win Myint reportedly testified that he would “rather die” than resign as the Myanmar military had demanded. 

With both the NUG and the junta convinced of an inevitable victory, Myanmar is heading toward an even more violent period.

Australian Sean Turnell was charged along with Suu Kyi and three former Cabinet ministers on charges of violating Myanmar’s official secrets law.

“A new political paradigm may be emerging in Myanmar... The youth-led resistance has bridged ethnic divides in a way that appears genuinely new and important.”

A looming humanitarian disaster proves the West’s unwillingness to counter the junta.