Myanmar and a new kind of civil war
Urban dissidents trained by battle-hardened guerillas in thecountryside could make things harder for the Tatmadaw. In early 1989, I was passing through Bangkok when a friend from a Western embassy invited me to what she called “a secret meeting”. She knew that I was a Myanmar-watcher, but what interested her most was the fact that […]
Villagers in Myingyan repel junta’s forces for the third time (မြင်းခြံ၊ တလုပ်မြို့ကို စစ်ကောင်စီတပ် တတိယအကြိမ် ဝင်စီး )
At least one soldier was killed during the latest attempt to enter a village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township on Tuesday Residents of a village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township successfully held off an attempted raid by regime forces on Tuesday, killing one soldier and injuring two, according to local sources. The locals, armed only […]
NUG supports sanctions against family members of coup leaders, human rights minister says (စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ပြည်ပရောက် မိသားစုတို့ကို အရေးယူပိတ်ဆို့ရန် NUG စီစဉ်)
Myanmar nationals continue ‘social punishment’ campaigns and lobby lawmakers abroad to blacklist the adult children of junta membersThe National Unity Government (NUG) is planning to work with foreign countries to introduce and expand sanctions against the overseas relatives of Myanmar’s coup council members, according to the NUG’s human rights minister. The NUG is the interim […]
Flash Strike in Myanmar (စစ်အာဏာရှင်တော်လှန်ရေး)
Flash Strike // May 10 – 09:00 PMHere are more pictures from “Flash Strike” campaigns across Myanmar. FlashStrike campaign across myanmar tonight. This strike is also did in 11 april 2021. Flash Strike // May 10 – 09:00 PM အမှောင်ဆုံးညကို တော်လှန်မယ့်Flash Strike သပိတ်ကြီးကို Milk Tea Allianceနိုင်ငံတွေ နဲ့ အတူ May လ 10 ရက်မှာ ( တန်ခူးလကွယ် ) […]
Myanmar poet dies after being detained, his family says (စစ်ကောင်စီဖမ်းသွားပြီး ၂၄ နာရီပင်မပြည့်မီ ကဗျာဆရာ ကိုခက်သီ သေဆုံး)
Myanmar poet Khet Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died in detention overnight and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said on Sunday. A spokesman for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death of Khet Thi, who had penned the line “They shoot […]
Major who defected from Tatmadaw begins training recruits to figh coup regime (စစ်ကောင်စီကို ရင်ဆိုင်တိုက်ရန် CDM ဗိုလ်မှူးဦးစီးသည့် စစ်သင်တန်းဖွင့်)
A high-ranking soldier who defected from the Myanmar military after it seized power on February 1 began training new recruits to fight the coup regime on Saturday in territory controlled by an armed insurgent group. Major Hein Thaw Oo defected from Light Infantry Division 99 in the central town of Meiktila in late March after […]
Military re-opens universities but few students attend (စစ်ကျွန်ပညာရေး အလိုမရှိ)
Myanmar’s military government has this week re-opened universities, colleges and institutes for doctoral courses, masters studies (written test) and final-year undergraduate students, partly to show the country is functioning normally. But only a handful of students attended, according to witnesses and student union sources across the country. The state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar […]
Military coup puts Telenor’s future in Myanmar on the line (တယ်လီနောကုမ္ပဏီ အရှုံးပေါ်နေ )
Since Myanmar’s military ordered telecoms operators to shut their networks in an effort to end protests against its February coup, Telenor’s business there has been in limbo. As one of the few Western companies to bet on the South East Asian country after it emerged from military dictatorship a decade ago, the return to army […]
We are not naive anymore: Myanmar EAOs skeptical about federal army (ကျွန်တော်တို့ အယုံမလွယ်တော့ဘူး)
The ousting of the National League for Democracy in the February 1 coup triggered a major shift in power dynamics between Myanmar’s ethnic groups. Now, with talk of a federal army and government growing, minority groups are pushing the Bamar majority for real changeSeven decades of ethnic warfare in Myanmar have produced an abundance of […]
A wider war coming to Myanmar (“နီးလာတဲ့ စစ်ပွဲ”)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for several, almost simultaneous attacks on military targets in central Myanmar, including air bases recently used to target ethnic armed groups in the nation’s frontier areas. (ဆောင်းပါးကို လိုတိုရှင်း ပြန်ဆိုပါတယ်။) (၁) နေပြည်တော်နဲ့ နီးကပ်လှတဲ့ မကွေးနဲ့ မိတ္ထီလာလေတပ်စခန်းတွေကို လက်သည်မပေါ် တပြိုင်နက်နီးနီး ဒုံးကျည်နဲ့ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုတွေဟာ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်က နယ်စပ်ဒေသတွေကနေ ဗဟိုဒေသတွေဆီ ချဥ်းကပ်လာနေပြီဆိုတာ အချက်ပြပါတယ်။ Security analysts, however, believe the shadowy […]