UN calls on Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and respect earthquake recovery ceasefire Military criticised by UN for launching more than 120 attacks since announcing truce and blocking aid The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2025
UN slams Myanmar’s ruling military for breaching truce amid quake recovery Army carried out some 120 attacks after earthquake, with more than half of them after declaration of ceasefire, UN says. Al Jazeera · Apr 11, 2025
Thousands are feared dead in Myanmar’s quake. Trump’s USAID cuts will cause even more unnecessary deaths In early 2021, after a decade of political and economic reforms, Myanmar looked like it was finally beginning to shake off the hangover of decades of military rule. Foreign investment was growing, and standards of living were gradually improving. The Conversation · Mar 29, 2025
Myanmar’s civil war: How shifting US-Russia ties could tip balance and hand China a greater role While the United States talked military assistance and minerals with Ukraine, Russia did the same with one of its few remaining allies: Myanmar. The Conversation · Mar 28, 2025
Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing commits to hold elections by year's end The 2021 military coup which ousted democratically-elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been met with widespread opposition, sparking widespread protests and triggering an armed resistance which has plunged much of the country into conflict. Euronews · Mar 27, 2025
The Rohingya were driven from Myanmar. Now they’re taking up arms to fight back SPECIAL REPORT: In the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, whispers of resistance grow louder as young men feel compelled to take up arms and return to fight in Myanmar. Shweta Sharma speaks to these rebels and meets their secretive leader in a hideout in one of the Cox’s… The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2025
‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regime The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025
How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’ ON THE GROUND: Rohingya Muslims tell of their changing view of Aung San Suu Kyi, seeing her as one of their own – a victim of the military – as she languishes in solitary confinement. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2025
Argentine Court Issues Warrants For Myanmar Officials Accused Of Rohingya 'Genocide' An Argentine court has issued arrest warrants for the head of Myanmar's military junta and former officials including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi over alleged "genocide and crimes against humanity" targeting the Rohingya minority group. International Business Times · Feb 14, 2025
Guy Horton obituary Other lives: Human rights activist and English teacher who highlighted the persecution of minority ethnic groups in Myanmar The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025
Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar's ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful as the property in a country embroiled in a civil war failed to attract any bidders The Independent UK · Feb 5, 2025
Myanmar Junta Bid To Sell Suu Kyi Mansion Flops For Third Time Myanmar's junta failed in its attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader's home -- the third time the sale has flopped. International Business Times · Feb 5, 2025
Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s son demands her release outside Myanmar Embassy in London Aung San Suu Kyi’s son, Kim Aris, made a direct plea to Myanmar’s military junta on Friday, 31 January, for the release of his mother on the fourth anniversary of her arrest. The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025
The world at war: the flashpoints that the west ignores While all eyes are on the Middle East and Ukraine, brutality still reigns in many other regions suffering many other conflicts The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025
The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2025 Aung San Suu Kyi’s son pleads with Myanmar's military dictatorship to free his mother Kim Aris calls for release of ‘last flame of hope for democracy’ in the country
Al Jazeera · Feb 1, 2025 Four years after coup, Myanmar regime prepares for ‘violent, messy’ polls Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.
Evening Standard · Feb 1, 2025 David Lammy calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi The Foreign Secretary said Britain had ‘not forgotten’ those ‘arbitrarily detained’ by the military regime which leads Myanmar.
The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2025 Foreign secretary David Lammy makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi Exclusive: Cabinet minister demands she be freed after Independent TV documentary examines her rise and fall – and the plight of the people of Myanmar
The Guardian - AU · Jan 31, 2025 Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict Armed groups have been fighting the military junta since a coup in 2021. What has changed in four years? How is China involved? And what has happened to Aung Sun Suu Kyi? We answer these questions and more
The Conversation · Jan 28, 2025 As the Myanmar junta’s hold on power weakens, could the devastating war be nearing a conclusion? It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 2021, starting a civil war that has devastated the country.
The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2025 The Independent’s documentary hailed for shining light on ‘reprehensible’ jailing of Aung San Suu Kyi Bianca Jagger, ‘Wild Swans’ author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar leader following the screening of a new Independent TV film on her life
Al Jazeera · Jan 19, 2025 ASEAN tells Myanmar military rulers peace should be priority, not election Myanmar has been in turmoil since 2021 when its military overthrew the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2025 Japanese filmmaker whose arrest caused international outcry backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship
The Independent UK · Jan 4, 2025 Foreigners among 6,000 prisoners to be freed under Myanmar junta’s annual amnesty There was no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, was among those pardoned
The Independent UK · Jan 4, 2025 Myanmar releases thousands of prisoners to mark Independence Day Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain