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Myanmar ethnic conflicts
![Myanmar’s Tepid Thingyan New Year Myanmar’s Tepid Thingyan New Year](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-05-27-053236.jpg)
Myanmar’s Tepid Thingyan New Year
By Naw Theresa
Like much else, the country's normally raucous new year festivities have become a political battleground since the 2021 coup.
![How Myanmar’s Coup Has Reshaped Its Ethnic Conflicts How Myanmar’s Coup Has Reshaped Its Ethnic Conflicts](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-01-14-053653.jpg)
How Myanmar’s Coup Has Reshaped Its Ethnic Conflicts
By Thomas Kean
The coup has given way to potentially transformative negotiations aimed at the creation of a genuinely inclusive federal state.
![Myanmar’s Election Marks a Step Away From Peace Myanmar’s Election Marks a Step Away From Peace](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-11-03-16.jpg)
Myanmar’s Election Marks a Step Away From Peace
By Ben Dunant
Sunday's vote will likely deliver a government with a strong popular mandate – a rarity in mainland Southeast Asia – but ethnic minorities will be left out in the cold.
![Myanmar’s Justice System Is Failing Survivors of Sexual Violence Myanmar’s Justice System Is Failing Survivors of Sexual Violence](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-flag-2526576_1280.jpg)
Myanmar’s Justice System Is Failing Survivors of Sexual Violence
By Wai Wai Nu and Maggi Quadrini
Myanmar's judiciary is driven by stakeholders more interested in protecting perpetrators than victims.
![From Myanmar to India: Refugees’ Lives Matter From Myanmar to India: Refugees’ Lives Matter](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2019-12-02-2.jpg)
From Myanmar to India: Refugees’ Lives Matter
By StoriesAsia
Myanmar’s Chin people in India.
![Marking 70 Years of War in Myanmar Marking 70 Years of War in Myanmar](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-jittraponkaicome_70thkarenrevolution_01.jpg)
Marking 70 Years of War in Myanmar
By Jittrapon Kaicome
Karen armed groups gather to seek peace while marking the 70th anniversary of the original revolution.
![Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Cult of Personality Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Cult of Personality](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-5843869666_c12d80de4f_b.jpg)
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Cult of Personality
By David I. Steinberg
Aung San Suu Kyi's cult of personality is continuously projected within Myanmar even while it expires internationally.
![Myanmar's Fighting Season in Kachin Myanmar's Fighting Season in Kachin](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-1024px-kachin_independence_army_cadets_in_laiza_paul_vrieze-voa.jpg)
Myanmar's Fighting Season in Kachin
By Daniel Combs
The fighting in Kachin is a microcosm of Myanmar's stalled peace process.
![A New Report Says America is Being Duped in Myanmar A New Report Says America is Being Duped in Myanmar](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-myanmar-1029246_1280.jpg)
A New Report Says America is Being Duped in Myanmar
By Stanley A. Weiss
Myanmar's military has fooled Washington into thinking the country has changed.
![Smuggling Away Myanmar’s Chance for Peace Smuggling Away Myanmar’s Chance for Peace](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-rtx1yvf2.jpg)
Smuggling Away Myanmar’s Chance for Peace
By Tom Fawthrop
Jade smuggling is fueling ethnic conflict in resource-rich Kachin state.
![A Wrench in Myanmar's Peace Process A Wrench in Myanmar's Peace Process](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-03-03_16-06-30.jpg)
A Wrench in Myanmar's Peace Process
By Daniel Combs
Armed opposition groups create their own alternative to the NLD government's Panglong Peace Conference.
![Myanmar's Forgotten Refugees Myanmar's Forgotten Refugees](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-04-11_01-53-13.jpg)
Myanmar's Forgotten Refugees
By Libby Hogan
Overshadowed by other crises around the world, 100,000 refugees are stranded in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border.
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