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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son aims for world record 80,000 messages to honour her 80th birthday

The pro-democracy Nobel Peace Prize winner has been in prison since a military coup in 2021

The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2025

Starmer urged to intervene in ‘never-ending nightmare’ of Aung San Suu Kyi and people of Myanmar

New report details harrowing plight of tens of thousands of political prisoners, including the country’s democratically elected leader, who was overthrown by the military in 2021

The Independent UK · Jun 3, 2025

Myanmar puts Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s house on auction for fourth time but finds no buyers

The colonial-styled private villa of Suu Kyi is located near Yangon’s scenic Inya lake

The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2025

UN special envoy Julie Bishop makes first trip to war-torn Myanmar after big quake

The U.N.’s special envoy for Myanmar, Australia’s Julie Bishop, has met with the military-run nation’s foreign minister during her first visit since her appointment last year, Her mission comes in the wake of the massive earthquake that killed more than 3,600 people, and in the larger context of the country’s…

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 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

Myanmar military chief reaffirms election plans and calls for opposition to join politics

Myanmar’s military chief used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day celebration to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by year’s end and call on opposition groups fighting the army to join in party politics

The Independent UK · 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

Myanmar’s junta chief announces election by January 2026

The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to maintain control, with armed resistance from pro-democracy fighters and ethnic militias escalating across the country

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 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

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