Asian summits shut eyes to dirty business in Myanmar
Bangkok, Thailand – Pot lids and umbrellas, symbols of resistance in Myanmar, appeared in front of Thailand’s Prime Minister’s Office and United Nations headquarters as political leaders from the region gathered in the capital to discuss free trade zones and other economic issues. November was a month where numerous international meetings took place in Southeast […]
A Talk with Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe
NUG Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs speaks about the suffering faced by women and children, the NUG actions to help and strengthen affected communities, as well as the need for the world’s attention to her country’s crisis.
Airstrikes Epidemic (I) // Open wounds in the heart of Kachinland
OCTOBER 23rd, 2022 // A targeted airstrike during a concert in A Nang Pa, Kachin State, held by the KIO for its 62 years anniversary, killed dozens of people and traumatized all residents.
One river, one border, two realities
OCTOBER 7th, 2022 // The endless escape of Myanmar people out of their land is worsening since the military coup of 2021. As realpolitik and national security issues topple humanitarian concerns, tragedies along the river marking the border between Thailand and Myanmar keep unfolding.
Airstrike Epidemic (0) // The junta’s war on children
SEPTEMBER 16th, 2022 // Early afternoon, the Burmese army intentionally attacked a school in Lat Yet Kone village in Depayin Township. Using machine guns and launchers, soldiers killed two dozen people, half of them children.
Surviving in Cities of Crime and Despair
A year and a half after the military coup, the life of people in Myanmar is worsening by the day. As the cities become lawless, the rates of crime and insecurity increase and people lost all feelings of physical safety and economic stability.
// ROHINGYATOGRAPHER // Snaps of life in the world’s biggest refugee camp
August 25th, 2022 // This summer, a collective of Rohingya photographers living for years in the Kuputalong-Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh published their first photography magazine.
In memoriam of the journalists in Myanmar
After the military coup on February 1st, 2021, journalists were among the first to be hunted down along with opposition politicians, social workers and activists. Dozens of reporters have been arrested and four have been killed by the SAC.
Junta Gets Full Membership in the Eurasian Autocracies Gang
Pob Pra District, Tak province, Thailand – In this remote village at the Thai-Myanmar border, a model-sized blue Mig-29 aircraft led the cortege for Asahna Bucha Buddhist ceremony. Three little boys dressed in pilot, soldier and policeman uniforms sat around the small jet fighter, which was carried in a decorated pick-up truck parading around their […]
Remember Six Decades of Students Repression
YANGON // On July 7th, many protests happened around Myanmar to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1962 revolutionary student strike. The “Seven July” uprising was one of the first mass movement to oppose the military coup by General Ne Win’s junta in March earlier that year. On that day, the military injured and killed […]