The Military’s Offensive Against the Media
The Military’s Offensive Against the Media. We journalists are under attack. Press freedom is in jeopardy in Myanmar.The last act of aggression happened on Monday when the military arrested The Irrawaddy’s senior reporter Lawi Weng and two Democratic Voice of Burma...
Burma and investigates Rohingya ‘genocide’.
Burma says it will not let outside world investigate Rohingya 'genocide' claims Officials say an ongoing domestic investigation is 'sufficient' to look into the allegations. Burma will refuse entry to members of the UN trying to investigate the alleged killing,...
Alternative School Near Inle Reimagines Primary Education
NYAUNG SHWE, Shan State — On a four-acre plot of land in Chaung Sauk village, surrounded by the Shan hills and near one of Myanmar’s most popular tourism locales, three bamboo buildings resembling spaceships draw nearly every passerby’s attention. At first glance,...
La souffrance des civils au Nord Myanmar
Actes de torture et exécutions extrajudiciaires, bombardements aveugles de villages civils, entraves aux déplacements et restrictions à l’aide humanitaire... A l’issue de trois missions effectuées récemment, notre organisation apporte des preuves de crimes guerre...
We Love Wirathu : Campaigns Launched
Supporters of firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu launched campaigns to garner signatures in his support in Karen State and Mandalay Region earlier this month. The “We Love Wirathu” campaigns were launched in response to allegations that U Wirathu’s sermons were...
A Frontline Dispatch From the Tanai Conflict
Under the heavy rain, I boarded a boat with a group of fellow reporters and made my way to a patch of Kachin Independence Army (KIA) territory threatened by the Myanmar Army about an hour from Tanai town. Thousands of locals and migrants working the area’s gold and...
Kachin IDPs Face Hunger and Homelessness
TANAI TOWNSHIP, Kachin State — Three days ago, Steven Naw Ring, 35, and his family fled their home in the mining village of Nan Kon in Tanai Township, Kachin State. Fighting had broken out between the Myanmar Army, also known as the Tatmadaw, and the Kachin...
Programme Culturel Yangon juin 2017
Let My Voice Be Heard: Photography Exhibition | June 9-18 This photo exhibition showcases a selection of photographs produced through a participatory photography project with young people displaced by conflict in Kachin State. Myo Haung Road | June 17-21 The...
U Wirathu Claims Facebook Blocked His Accounts
Myanmar’s ultranationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu claimed Facebook temporarily shut down his account in a video shared on another Facebook account last Friday. “On May 31 [Facebook] said they would shut down the account for a month, after sending a report,” he said,...
Ethnic Media in Myanmar: New Approaches
After reforms by Myanmar’s post-2011 government, the landscape for both mainstream and ethnic media has changed dramatically, with new media outlets blooming. Abolishing the country’s censor board and welcoming exiled media groups to publish in-country, the...