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The son of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has launched a bid to collect a world-record 80,000 messages from around the ...
What is taking place inside Myanmar is a humanitarian disaster, but it matters for another, more abstract reason, too.
New report details harrowing plight of tens of thousands of political prisoners, including the country’s democratically ...
A military fighter jet crashed and burned in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar’s civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it down while state-run media reported ...
Aung San Suu Kyi was a globally renowned human rights advocate since the early 1990s until the events of 2017. She was also heading Myanmar's civilian government during the deadly wave of violence ...
An Argentinian court issued an international arrest warrant for Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and political prisoner, along with other Myanmar officials, on charges of genocide and crimes ...
However, this is precisely what occurred in February this year, when an Argentinian court asked for the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. The court's decision applies to 25 Myanmar citizens wanted on ...
Myanmar’s military authorities arrested 16 people, including a six-year-old girl, in connection with the assassination of a ...
As part of our 'Stories That Shaped Us' series, to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 election, The Irrawaddy revisits a ...
Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy ...
Burmese resistance forces captured five army bases as clashes continued near the Thai border. Footage shows Karen National ...
However, this is precisely what occurred in February this year, when an Argentinian court asked for the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. The court's decision applies to 25 Myanmar citizens wanted on ...