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Myanmar coup
Duwa Lashi La on the State of Myanmar’s Resistance
By Sebastian Strangio
“Despite the challenges, I have never seen a more promising time for our people to find common ground.”
Thailand’s Myanmar Policy Is Costing Communities on Both Sides of the Border
By Patrick Phongsathorn
The Thai government appears increasingly complicit in the Myanmar junta’s deadly reign of terror.
Understanding Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
By Saw Kapi
Many outside observers have yet to come to grips with the depths of the changes that have occurred since last year’s military coup.
Myanmar Expanding Use of Chinese-Made Facial Recognition Systems: Report
By Sebastian Strangio
According to a Reuters investigation, the military junta has plans to install CCTV systems in all 14 states and divisions.
ASEAN Should Harden Its Stance on Myanmar Junta, Blinken Says
By Sebastian Strangio
But the Southeast Asian bloc is unlikely to take the punitive line favored by the U.S. and its Western partners.
An American Artist Who Stayed Behind in Myanmar
By Luke Hunt
A conversation with David Richards about life under the junta.
Decapitation Video Points to Increasing Military Atrocities in Myanmar
By Rajeev Bhattacharyya
The grisly video may have been purposefully leaked in order to terrorize civilians and deter them from supporting anti-regime resistance forces.
Myanmar Apologizes After Jet Fighter Violated Thai Airspace
By Sebastian Strangio
The aircraft strayed into Thai airspace on the same day as a Thai military delegation traveled to Naypyidaw for border talks.
ASEAN Envoy Calls for Release of Aung San Suu Kyi from Solitary Confinement
By Sebastian Strangio
This week, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will begin his second official mission to the country as the bloc's special envoy.
Thailand Sees Fresh Surge of Refugees, Migrants from Myanmar: Report
By Sebastian Strangio
A Thailand-based NGO claims that Thai police have detained nearly 20,000 people trying to cross the border in the last five months alone.
Amid Conflict, Travel Flickers Back to Life in Myanmar
By Seng Pan and Tsa Shee Nrang
While international tourism may never fully recover, domestic travel is on the rise despite widespread insecurity.
Myanmar’s Conflict Threatens to Produce ‘Lost Generation’: UN Expert
By Sebastian Strangio
U.N. special rapporteur Tom Andrews has called on the world to respond to the country's crisis with "the same urgency they have responded to the crisis in Ukraine."