Aung San Suu Kyi
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Inside Myanmar’s five-year armed resistance – a photo essay
Five years after the junta’s coup, the civil war devastating Myanmar has reached a turning point. The military…
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Junta-backed party secures sweeping victory in Myanmar’s ‘sham’ election
Human rights groups and some western countries have denounced the election, the first held since the 2021 coup…
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Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election
Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army’s grip on powerVoting i…
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Military-backed party in Myanmar takes lead in contentious first election since coup
Junta says turnout in first vote in five years is 52%, which observers have described as low compared to past …
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Polls close in first phase of Myanmar elections widely condemned as a sham
Turnout appears low for vote in which most candidates seen as allies of junta and large areas excluded by warP…
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Myanmar’s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to know
The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are waryFive years af…
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Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention
Exclusive: Video and documents give rare glimpse inside daily life of the imprisoned civilian leader as she ne…
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Patricia Herbert obituary
From 1975 until 1998, my mother-in-law, Patricia Herbert, who has died aged 81, was the south-east Asia curato…
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‘No one came’: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victims
The military junta is calling for foreign aid but agencies and rescuers must navigate crumbling roads, an over…
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‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin
The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail unifor…
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The Guardian view on Myanmar, four years on: the army unleashed terror, but the people are defiant | Editorial
The junta’s brutality has failed to secure victory in the civil war, but is devastating the countryMyanmar’s c…
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Myanmar junta to free about 6,000 prisoners in annual amnesty, including 180 foreigners
It was not clear whether Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held virtually incommunicado since 2021 coup, would be…
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Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets – the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta’s losing war
After a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty – le…
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Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report
Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term i…
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Tin Oo, NLD founder with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies aged 97 in Myanmar
Former armed forces chief was imprisoned after failed revolt against junta and later campaigned with Nobel lau…