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Published in: Home: ExplainerWhat’s happening in Myanmar?
Activists fear a ‘killing spree’ after the military junta carried out the country’s first executions in decades
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionWill Facebook respect international rights or the whims of angry rulers?
A muddle of decisions indicates that Facebook and its ‘Supreme Court’ are making little progress towards a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsReport says soldiers shot three dead at Myanmar factory making US cowboy boots
A labour rights organisation says the soldiers also arrested 17 outside the shoe factory – for asking for wages
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Published in: Home: OpinionA revolution in the making is taking place in Myanmar
Resistance to last month's military coup is doing away with the country's long-standing divisions of ethnicity,...
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Published in: 50.50: Interview‘We’re unstoppable’: Meet the women leading Myanmar’s protests
These are some of the bold and brave women who have taken to the streets to protest against the military coup and...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAung San Suu Kyi overlooked Myanmar’s deepest problems
Ambition drove the military’s coup. But long before that, the country’s deposed leader squandered many opportunities...
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Published in: Home: Analysis‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s military
Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations
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Published in: Home: OpinionMyanmar, genocide and human rights: the atrocities our world allows
Today, the world is supposed to remember the victims of genocide. Tomorrow, Aung San Suu Kyi will confront the...
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Published in: TransformationAung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice: when the personal is political
Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.
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Published in: Home: OpinionMyanmar faces three international courts for Rohingya genocide –what good will they do?
The world failed the Rohingyas when they needed protection. But now it can ensure that the truth is told.
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Published in: Home“Genocide cards”: Rohingya refugees on why they risked their lives to refuse ID cards
Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documentation.
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Published in: openIndiaWhy the ‘good’ refugee is a bad idea
An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where...
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Published in: HomeHow populism directed against minorities is used to prop up Myanmar’s ‘Democratic’ revival
It is delusional to expect that this unfettered racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though,...
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Published in: HomeIs Oxford University complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi's genocide denial?
Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: HomeTen reflections inspired by the Rohingya crisis
The educated, middleclass layman, who is interested in the world and has a sense of social justice, but doesn’t...
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Published in: TransformationSaints in politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the dilemmas of political desire
We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
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Published in: HomeEthnic cleansing and the price of silence
For years Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by any means possible. It is time to re-examine theses advanced by...
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Published in: HomeWhen is a genocide a genocide?
(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...
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Published in: HomeMyanmar’s unique challenges
One year after Aung San Suu Kyi took office, Myanmar’s transition to democracy remains incomplete, and the country...