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5 days ago · by Maung Kavi. November 4, 2024. 2.1k. The recent arrest of former dictator Than Shwe’s son-in-law marks the latest chapter in an old story of insecurity and brutality among the country’s military leaders.
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Diarrhea Breaks Out in Sagaing Schools After Floods. by The Irrawaddy. November 7, 2024. 436. Hundreds of schoolkids are ill with diarrhea and flu in resistance-held Myaung Township as local health workers battle to provide medicines.
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Our Team. The Irrawaddy has a professional, passionate and skilled team of reporters who provide consistent, high quality news stories on Burma/Myanmar. Over 20 years the Irrawaddy has built up a team of Burmese and ethnic nationality reporters from Burma/Myanmar and areas bordering Thailand. Our staff team is diverse and includes Burmese staff ...
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Second NLD Minister Dies Shortly After Being Pardoned by Myanmar Junta. by The Irrawaddy. November 9, 2024. 1.4k. U Win Khine, electricity and energy minister in the ousted National League for Democracy government, died on Friday after almost four years in a regime jail.
Forged in Times of Danger: My Connection With Ko Jimmy and …
Sep 1, 2022 · An artist's rendition of Ma Nilar Thein (left), Ko Jimmy and their daughter. 8.9k. VIEWS. Looking back, my strongest connections with the executed activist Ko Jimmy, his wife Ma Nilar Thein and their young daughter all came at moments when their lives were in danger. This only became apparent to me after the Myanmar junta executed him by ...
Operation 1027: Major Gains in Phase Two of Myanmar Resistance …
Jul 30, 2024 · In the past month, the junta has lost around 100 bases, several military battalions including North Eastern Command headquarters, and at least six towns including northern Shan State’s capital, Lashio. Below, The Irrawaddy highlights the significant gains made by the armed resistance in phase two of Operation 1027. Fall of Nawnghkio town.
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Myanmar Junta to Vaccinate School Students Against COVID-19. by The Irrawaddy. October 11, 2021. 13.7k. The regime is pushing to reopen schools after they were closed when the deadly third wave of coronavirus swept the country in July.
The Future of Myanmar: Ethnic Diversity or Ethnic Strife? - The …
Jul 9, 2024 · The breakdown of a China-initiated ceasefire in northern Shan State, and the advance of ethnic resistance armies in the same area, have highlighted two crucial issues for the future of Myanmar: the nature and aims of Chinese peacemaking, and what the re-establishment of a federal system akin to that which the country enjoyed prior to …
How the Coup Split Myanmar’s Media Landscape - The Irrawaddy
Dec 9, 2022 · The military takeover last year fractured Myanmar’s media into three distinct groups. Needless to say, one group supports the regime while another – the country’s once mainstream but now exiled independent media that is still reporting on the country – principally opposes military rule. The third group is media with military backgrounds.
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Burma Beer Production Rises to 27.5M Gallons. by The Irrawaddy. May 19, 2014. 7.1k. Burma’s beer production continues to rise and local brewers produced 27.5 million gallons of beer in the last fiscal year, which lasted from April 2013 to March 2014, Eleven Media...