Myanmar junta’s conscription plan lays bare toll of fighting rebels
Reuters The Myanmar’s military conscription plan reveals the heavy toll that months of incessant fighting against rebels have had on its troops and the struggles the generals are facing to replenish their ranks, analysts, diplomats and a defector said. The plan, which was announced this week, comes after the junta lost control of swathes of […]
Myanmar junta enforces mandatory military service for young people
Reuters Myanmar’s junta made military service mandatory for all young men and women, state media said, as it struggles to contain armed rebel forces fighting for greater autonomy in various parts of the country. All men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27 must serve for up to two years, while specialists […]
Essay: Myanmar’s military junta appears to be in terminal decline
In an article first published on The Conversation, RONAN LEE looks at recent events in Myanmar…
Essay: We must not stop until we see change in Myanmar
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says a far more co-ordinated and comprehensive response is needed on Myanmar, one which includes a full global arms embargo against the military, and co-ordinated, targeted sanctions against its enterprises…
Myanmar: In Chin state, a grassroots rebellion grows
DEVJYOT GHOSHAL and CHANCHINMAWIA, of Reuters, report…
Essay: Nine months after the coup, the international community is still failing the people of Myanmar
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, says the world is failing the people of Myanmar…
Myanmar: Turmoil deepens as clashes spread
Reuters reports on the deteriorating security situation in Myanmar…
Churches destroyed, priests questioned in Myanmar’s Shan state
World Watch Monitor An ethnic armed group in Myanmar’s Shan state is destroying churches and holding clergymen for questioning, reports Radio Free Asia. The United Wa State Army (UWSA), the military wing of the United Wa State Party (UWSP), reportedly issued a statement on Facebook on 6th September, declaring that all churches built after 1989 (when […]