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WEBby Thar Oo. September 10, 2024. 3.7k. More and more internally displaced people escape the fighting to Yangon, where they face precarious livelihoods, extortion from corrupt Myanmar junta officials and price-gouging from letting agents, writes Thar Oo.
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WEBMyanmar Junta’s ‘Counterattack’ Targets Civilians, Killing 40, Including Children. by The Irrawaddy. September 7, 2024. 2.3k. Warplanes attack a school, bazaar, IDP camp and residential wards across the country after regime boss …
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WEBMyanmar Junta’s ‘Counterattack’ Targets Civilians, Killing 40, Including Children. by The Irrawaddy. September 7, 2024. 2.2k. Warplanes attack a school, bazaar, IDP camp and residential wards across the country after regime boss …
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WEBOur Team. The Irrawaddy has a professional, passionate and skilled team of reporters who provide consistent, high quality news stories on Burma/Myanmar. Over 20 years the Irrawaddy has built up a team of Burmese and ethnic nationality reporters from Burma/Myanmar and areas bordering Thailand. Our staff team is diverse and includes Burmese staff ...
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WEBElection Talks in Myanmar Are Touching on Amending The Constitution, Junta Says. by The Irrawaddy. June 21, 2024. 2.6k. Junta peace negotiators and representatives of the political parties working with the junta met to discuss the election coup-maker Min Aung Hlaing said will take place some time next year.
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WEBBurma Beer Production Rises to 27.5M Gallons. by The Irrawaddy. May 19, 2014. 7.1k. Burma’s beer production continues to rise and local brewers produced 27.5 million gallons of beer in the last fiscal year, which lasted from April 2013 to March 2014, Eleven Media...
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WEBMyanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia. by The Irrawaddy. May 22, 2024. 29.1k. A new report by JFM spotlights the organized crime empire of junta-allied Karen warlord Saw Chit Thu and his family, and exposes its many regional partners in crime.
The Unconditional Release of All Myanmar Political Prisoners is …
WEBMar 27, 2024 · One point on which they cannot compromise is the unconditional release of all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Win Myint. The ongoing arbitrary detention of Myanmar’s state counselor and president was recognized in the UN Security Council’s 2022 resolution.
‘Spring Revolution May Be Last Chance for Myanmar Democracy’
WEBMar 18, 2024 · 2.5k. VIEWS. Prominent pro-democracy activist Dr. Tayzar San is credited with launching the country’s first anti-coup protest with fellow activists in Mandalay, in February 2021, assuming a leadership role in the movement. The junta has been relentlessly pursuing him ever since, yet he has successfully evaded …
Would a Myanmar Resistance Victory Pave Way for New Country …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · The Myanmar military will win in the end. The conflict is a fight for the heart of the Bamar majority between the Tatmadaw (military) and the National League for Democracy led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the election in 2020. Resistance forces lack unity while the Myanmar military is highly unitary, monolithic, and hierarchical.