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Opinion Papers
Nay Pyi Taw’s goals still out of reach
Source: Bangkok Post
Who knows? In the coming months, shifting dynamics could either make or break the regime.
By Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
2025: A Pivotal Year For Myanmar – OpEd
Source: Eurasia Review
This historic, nationwide resistance by all ethnic groups is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expel the primary source of instability and atrocities, and it cannot be missed.
By Nicholas Kong, Myanmar democracy activist
China’s Myanmar Playbook and Its Far-Reaching Regional Implications
Source: Irrawaddy
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) deepening involvement in Myanmar’s political and conflict landscape has raised serious questions about Beijing’s intentions in and around the region.
By Ratish Mehta, research associate at the Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA)
Dyer: With Burma on the brink, fragmentation looms
Source: London Free Press
The first thing they should do afterwards is take a leaf from Costa Rica’s book and abolish the army. Don’t reform it or downsize it; just get rid of it forever.
By Gwynne Dyer
Hidden costs of war
Source: Radio Free Asia
4 years after Myanmar’s coup, the army’s misrule is hurting even the junta’s soldiers and their families.
By Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s Civil War After Four Years
Source: Irrawaddy
Four years after its military coup and consequent civil war, Myanmar’s spotlight in global headlines continues to dim as geostrategic reorientations and realignments among the major powers take center stage.
By Thitinan Pongsudhirak
UN Special Representative Patten condemns the continued use of sexual violence against civilians as a tactic of war and political repression in Myanmar
Source: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, strongly condemns the continued use of rape and other forms of sexual violence as a tactic of war
Press Release | OSRSG Sexual Violence in Conflict
Rebel Violence in Myanmar and NUG’s Crisis of Legitimacy
Source: FULCRUM
Some law enforcement groups under the parallel National Unity Government (NUG) have become a danger to civilians. Their actions threaten to undermine the NUG’s legitimacy.
By Htet Hlaing Win
The Situation in Myanmar Four Years after the Coup d’État (Statement by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi)
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
I strongly condemn the Myanmar military for not working toward a peaceful resolution despite repeated calls by the international community while many innocent civilians are killed and wounded daily by airstrikes and other acts of violence.
Statement | Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi
Myanmar’s nonviolent revolutionaries must not be forgotten
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma
Peter Popham called her an Islamophobe. Bob Geldof, a handmaiden of genocide. George Monbiot wanted her stripped of her Nobel Peace prize.
By Fergus Harlow, writer, scholar, and human rights advocate