Opinion
The international community is shamed by its silence over Aung San Suu Kyi
Before she was deposed and imprisoned by military generals, the twice-elected leader of Myanmar made tragic errors of judgement in office, and has been abandoned to her fate. But if you are a democrat ...
Life in Myanmar today: ‘My brother’s legs were slashed with knives for liking a Facebook post’
Between February 2021 and August 2024, 172 Myanmar journalists were detained, 28 of them women. Hundreds of my colleagues ...
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris begs for her release from Myanmar prison
The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release amid fears for her health after four years in a ...
‘Legs were 'cut off' for liking FB post, boiling water poured,’ ex-scribe reveals chilling details from Myanmar prisons
Former journalist Maung Maung revealed that he paid a huge bribe to a jail officer to get his wife medical treatment. He was ...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Who is to blame for Myanmar’s collapse into military tyranny?
Aung San Suun Kyi’s imprisonment in a jungle jail marks the rise and fall of one of the world’s most iconic women as her ...
RIPR: The Public's Radio23h
How hopes for Myanmar’s democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)
Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell asks how hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed ...
‘Myanmar is under the yoke of a pariah regime’: Calls grow in UK for release of Aung San Suu Kyi from prison
Two former UK foreign ministers join call for action after Lord Hague told Independent documentary it is possible to be ...
The Independent on MSN5d
Free Aung San Suu Kyi, demand three former UK foreign secretaries
The pro-democracy Nobel peace prize winner turned global pariah was toppled by the military leaders of Myanmar in 2021 and ...
The Irrawaddy5d
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar Home Set for Third Auction After No Bidders
Regime-controlled court rules floor price on historic property can be lowered after tussle between democracy icon and her ...
The Independent5d
Aung San Suu Kyi: Who is to blame for Myanmar’s collapse into military tyranny?
Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year ... In the general election of 2015 Suu Kyi became Myanmar’s first honestly elected leader since 1962. But her triumph concealed a fatal ...