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Bangladesh’s Myanmar Challenge is No Longer Only About the Rohingya
For nearly a decade, Bangladesh’s policy on Myanmar has revolved around a single question: how to manage more than 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled the…
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For nearly a decade, Bangladesh’s policy on Myanmar has revolved around a single question: how to manage more than 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled the…
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For years, the Rohingya crisis has been understood through one central lens: The Myanmar military committed genocide against a stateless Muslim minority and drove more than…
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Myanmar is no longer a functioning state in any meaningful sense. It is becoming something far more complex and far more dangerous: a battleground of competing…
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The annual UN General Assembly has once again come and gone. World leaders delivered lofty speeches about war, climate change, and human rights. Yet among the…
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The recent announcement by Myanmar’s junta that it will hold national elections in December 2025 or January 2026 is not the sign of democratic progress it…
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In an announcement that underscores the gravity of the Rohingya crisis, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week confirmed that he will visit the Rohingya refugee camps…
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The shadow of Myanmar’s tumultuous history looms large over its present. The National Unity Government, formed in the wake of the military coup in February 2021,…
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As the crisis in Myanmar continues to escalate, with the military losing ground to the People’s Defense Force and other insurgent factions, the specter of another…
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Since November, Rakhine State in Myanmar has been marred by renewed violence between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, shattering a year-long unofficial ceasefire and…
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Last week marked five years since the start of the most recent stage of the genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya. It was on Aug. 25,…
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Aung San Suu Kyi once again finds herself in a set of circumstances that defined her life in the past: Under arrest by the military government…
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In the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 — and about five years too late — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other…