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The Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar contains an expanse of rainforest, ocean, and mangroves where a range of wildlife – from tigers and elephants to tapirs – roam, and the Indigenous Karen people consider themselves stewards of this richness. In 2012, the Karen and the Myanmar military (...)
On August 1, Myanmar’s commander-in-chief, Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, dressed in civilian clothes, made a televised speech six months to the day after leading a coup that thrust the country back under brutal military rule. Amid claims of establishing a multiparty democracy, the junta leader (...)
Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 17-19 September. They were accompanied by unprecedented fraud and intimidation. Despite all the efforts of grassroots activists, Vladimir Putin’s “United Russia” party retained a constitutional majority in the State Duma (Russian parliament). This (...)
“It is not for outside people to tell the people of Myanmar who are bearing the brunt of unspeakable violence whether or not to resort to armed resistance, especially when the UN and ASEAN have been so ineffective.”
On 7 September, the National Unity Government (NUG) declared its ‘people’s (...)
A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
The National Unity Government’s recent (...)
Welcome to Frontier Fridays. This week the National Unity government formally declared war on the junta, the international community tried to encourage dialogue and a ceasefire, resistance fighters launched attacks against military-backed telecommunications company Mytel, and ultranationalist (...)
Myanmar is increasingly becoming a nation underground. You could almost call it a nationwide game of “hide-and-seek”. But of course this game has potentially fatal consequences. Being found means arrest, torture and even death.
It has been many months since I went into hiding. Those who have (...)
A growing number of children are leaving school and picking up arms out of desperation.
Security forces in Myanmar are targeting anti-junta youth activists throughout the country, forcing many to drop out of school and take up arms with militia groups seeking to unseat the military regime (...)
The NUG’s acting president calls on the public, the People’s Defence Force and ethnic armed organisations to revolt against Min Aung Hlaing’s military council.
Screengrab of acting president Duwa Lashi La giving the recorded speech on September 7
Myanmar’s acting president Duwa Lashi La of the (...)
[7 September 2021] Donors and international humanitarian organizations must ensure conflict sensitivity and employ a ‘do no harm’ solidarity-based approach to provision of humanitarian aid in Myanmar said 10 organizations. Aid must be sensitive to human rights protection and provided through (...)
Frontier managing editor Danny Fenster has been held in Yangon’s Insein Prison since his May 24 arrest, and is believed to have contracted COVID-19 while in detention.
The family of US journalist Danny Fenster appealed on August 31 for his release by Myanmar authorities as they marked his 100th (...)
Pauk Township has emerged as a stronghold of armed resistance in Magway Region, with two local militias inflicting dozens of Tatmadaw casualties and preparing for expanded conflict.
On February 8, residents of Pauk in Magway Region began gathering each day at an abandoned airstrip just outside (...)
A new rail line providing China with access to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar was opened on Aug. 25 on the Chinese side of the border.
The rail line stretches from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, to Lincang, a prefecture-level city in China’s Yunnan Province opposite Chin Shwe Haw, a (...)
With a record-breaking number of defections unmatched in nearly six decades and brewing discontent among the ranks against their superiors, Myanmar’s more than 300,000-strong military is now at risk of splitting, according to some ex-army officers who have deserted their units recently. (...)
The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language paper in Pakistan s posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider translation, these reports (...)
Striking police officers in Kayah State have formed a police force which will work together with anti-regime groups to fight military rule. It is the first such shadow police force to be formed in Myanmar since the junta’s February 1 coup.
The Karenni State Police (KSP) was formed on August 15 (...)
The South Korean government said it will continue to support the restoration of democracy in Myanmar through close cooperation with the international community, and to engage Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG).
The Office of the President of South Korea made the announcement in (...)
Myanmar’s bilateral relations with Russia have reached a new level since the February coup, said the regime’s spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun.
“The two countries maintained good relations under the National League for Democracy government but relations with Russia are deeper now. Russia plays (...)
round 2,000 soldiers and police have joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) since the Myanmar military’s February 1 coup, according to People’s Embrace, a group helping security forces personnel who are refusing to work for the regime.
Most of the soldiers who have joined the CDM are (...)
Welcome to Frontier Fridays. This week, the military regime reconfigured itself as a new “Provisional Government” with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as prime minister, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations finally named a special envoy to address the Myanmar crisis, COVID-19 continued to (...)
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