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What Would Justice Look Like If There Were No Rohingya Left in Myanmar?
Nine years after the 2017 atrocities, Rohingya are still being forced to flee because the genocide has never stopped. August 25 is an incredibly painful day…
Region: Myanmar
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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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Myanmar’s Military ‘Comeback’ Claim Doesn’t Hold Water
Coup maker Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s allies want the world to believe that Myanmar’s military is “on the upswing” and “mounting a comeback” in a…
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Don’t Mistake Suu Kyi’s House Arrest for Myanmar’s Freedom
A banner featuring Aung San Suu Kyi is displayed on February 15 as protesters demonstrating against the military coup surround police, who had blocked off the…
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Myanmar Now A Battleground of Competing Sovereignties
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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With Its China Tour, Myanmar Junta Wires Itself Into Beijing’s Digital Grip
In mid-September, the Myanmar junta’s senior leadership staged a diplomatic “parade” in China. Over the course of a single week, at least eight officials—six cabinet ministers,…
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Why Myanmar Junta’s Engagement with China and India is Accelerating
After junta leader Min Aung Hlaing met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his August-September visit to China for the Shanghai…
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37 Years and Counting: Why Has Myanmar’s Democracy Struggle Taken So Long?
It has been 37 years since the 1988 Democracy Uprising. For more than three decades, the people of Myanmar have been fighting to restore the democracy…
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The Twilight of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s once internationally celebrated democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 years old on June 19, entering her fifth year of imprisonment following the country’s…
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Will Myanmar’s Military Replace Its Embattled Leader?
To pro-democracy forces he is a brutal dictator who imprisons people who oppose his February 2021 coup, a power-hungry maniac who has not hesitated to send…
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Disaster Diplomacy in Myanmar: A Convenient Narrative for the Int’l Community
Since the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake on March 28, the international community, particularly neighboring countries, has rushed to provide relief. India and China competitively boosted their…
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Is China Taking a Role in Myanmar’s Civil War?
Just three weeks after the devastating earthquake that rocked Central Myanmar, a similarly seismic event has impacted the complex civil war between multiple rebel organizations and…