Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is an independent journalist from Burma’s Arakan State who writes feature, analysis, and op-ed articles on human rights, humanitarian crises, political transitions, and issues related to civil war and the military coup in Burma. His works have appeared in TIME, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, and other international publications.
He was also a guest contributing writer for a Pulitzer Centre project on intensive armed conflict in western Burma, Arakan (Rakhine) State during 2018-20, and one of the award winners of the 2021 Human Rights Press Awards and the 2021 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for the Foreign Correspondence from the Society of Professional Journalist, as well as the finalist of the 2021 Society of Publisher in Asia (SOPA) awards for the Excellence in Opinion Writing.