Events & Interviews & Translations - Kyaw Hsan Hlaing

University of Hawaii at Manoa • April 1 2024

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/urop/student-feature-kyaw-hsan-hlaing/

Kyaw Hsan Hlaing (Asian Studies major) is not like most other UROP funding recipients. At the age of 26 and before receiving his undergraduate degree, he already has an extensive publication record encompassing dozens of news articles in international press outlets and a book manuscript under contract with the University of Hawai‘i Press. He is also a refugee from Myanmar who fled his home country after the February 2021 coup that gave rise to a bloody, ongoing civil war.

Voice of America (VOA News) • February 1 2024

Since 2021 Coup, Myanmar Media Resist Repression

With Myanmar's most prominent outlets like Frontier Myanmar, The Irrawaddy and the Democratic Voice of Burma regrouping beyond the country's borders, journalists are still able to report on Myanmar and the population's plight from abroad.

"In the face of censorship and state-controlled media, independent journalism has become a powerful tool for mobilizing public opinion," said Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, a journalist who left Myanmar after the coup and is now based in Hawaii.

Deutsche Welle • January 25 2024

Will Myanmar cease-fire hold? – DW – 01/25/2024

Despite China-led peace talks between opposition and junta forces, the situation remains delicate. Myanmar has been in chaos ever since the military overthrew the democratically elected government in February 2021.

The recently China-brokered cease-fire between Myanmar's armed opposition groups and the ruling military does not mean the conflict will stop, analysts say.

The joint Three Brotherhood Alliance — an alliance between the Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and the

BBC News မြန်မာ • January 20 2024

ရခိုင်ကို ထိန်းချုပ်ရေး AA ရဲ့ ရက္ခိတအိပ်မက် ပြည့်မြောက်လာတော့မလား - BBC News မြန်မာ

ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာ ပါဝင် ဆွေးနွေးကြသူတွေကတော့ နိုင်ငံတကာ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ဆိုင်ရာ စောင့်ကြည့်ရး အဖွဲ့ HRW နဲ့ အာရှ ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းတို့မှာ အဆင့်မြင့် တာဝန်တွေ ယူခဲ့ပြီး၊ မြန်မာ့အရေးကို ဆယ်စုနှစ် အဆက်ဆက် အနီးကပ် စောင့်ကြည့် လေ့လာနေတဲ့ မြန်မာ့အရေး ကျွမ်းကျင်သူ ဒေးဗစ် မက်သီဆန်နဲ့၊ နိုင်ငံတကာ စာနယ်ဇင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဆုတွေ ရရှိထားပြီး ၊ လက်ရှိ အမေရိကန် ဟာဝိုင်အီ တက္ကသိုလ်၊ အာရှလေ့လာရေး ဌာနမှာ ပညာသင်ယူနေတဲ့ မြန်မာ့နိုင်ငံရေး သုံးသပ်သူ ကိုကျေော်ဆန်းလှိုင်တို့ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

University of Hawaii at Manoa • January 9 2024

Coup and Resistance: The Struggle for Democracy in Myanmar

On February 1, 2024, the three-year commemoration of the military coup in Myanmar will be observed. This suggested panel discussion aims to delve into the present revolutionary movement, the role of foreign assistance in the pro-democracy movement, and the prospective trajectory of the armed conflict in Myanmar.

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute • January 9 2024

Webinar on “Operation 1027 and Its Broader Implications for Myanmar”

In this webinar, three experts discussed the unfolding effects of Operation 1027, a major offensive launched by the Three Brotherhood Alliance (3BHA), which comprises the Myanmar National Democratic Army (MNDAA), the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), and the Arakan Army (AA), and constituting one of the most significant challenges confronting the State Administration Council (SAC) regime in Myanmar since the 2021 coup.

Tuesday, 28 November 2023 – The Myanmar Studies Programme at ISEAS

Insight Myanmar • November 22 2023

Rakhine Roulette (Emergency Edition) — Insight Myanmar

In the wake of Operation 1027, a joint military operation conducted by the Three Brotherhood Alliance— comprised of the Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army— the state of the conflict in Myanmar has changed overnight. The operation involved coordinated attacks on multiple towns in northern Shan State and the Sagaing region, targeting the Myanmar Army, Myanmar Police Force and pro-military militia installations. The Three Brotherhood

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute • November 22 2023

Operation 1027 and Its Broader Implications for Myanmar

On 27 October, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and its allies launched a surprise offensive against the State Administration Council (SAC) military regime in Myanmar. The speed and scale of Operation 1027 has resulted in significant losses for the Myanmar army. Operation 1027 alliance troops have taken control of army bases, and towns along key trade routes with China. Resistance forces across Myanmar, from Kayah and Kayin in the South to Rakhine in the West, have also launched.

Stimson Center • November 5 2023

Operation 1027: Implications for the Military Junta in Myanmar •

On October 27, 2023, the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched Operation 1027 to retake Kokang and elsewhere, signifying the largest movement in northern Myanmar since the February 2021 coup. The offensive action in Shan State has captured the attention of Myanmar observers globally, as well as concerned neighboring countries, like China. Join us for a conversation between a group of Myanmar experts on the significance and developing implications of this operation for the Myanmar junta.

BBC News မြန်မာ • November 4 2023

၁၀၂၇ စစ်ဆင်ရေးဟာ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးနဲ့ တဆက်တစပ်တည်း ဖြစ်လာနေပြီလား - BBC News မြန်မာ

မြောက်ပိုင်း မဟာမိတ် ၃ ဖွဲ့ ပူးပေါင်း စတင်လိုက်တဲ့ ၁၀၂၇ စစ်ဆင်ရေးဟာ မြန်မာ့ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ရဲ့ နောက်ပိုင်း ၁၀ စုနှစ်တွေ အတွင်း မကြုံစဖူး မြို့သိမ်း တိုက်ပွဲတွေထိအောင် ဆင်နွှဲလာခဲ့ပြီး သီတင်းတစ်ပတ် ဆိုတဲ့ ကာလ အပိုင်းအခြား အတွင်းမှာပဲ၊ ရှမ်းမြောက်ပိုင်းက အနည်းဆုံး မြို့ ၄ မြို့ကို သိမ်းပိုက် ထိန်းချုပ် လိုက်တဲ့ အပြင်၊ စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်စခန်း ဒါဇင်ပေါင်း များစွာကိုလည်း သိမ်းပိုက် လိုက်ပါတယ်။

ဒီ တစ်ပတ် အစီအစဥ်မှာတော့ ... မြောက်ပိုင်း အဖွဲ့တွေရဲ့ စစ်ရေး နိုင်ငံရေး ရည်မှန်းချက်တွေက ဘာဖြစ်မလဲ ဆိုတဲ့ အပေါ် သုံးသပ်ရင်းမှာပဲ၊ မြောက်ပိုင်း အဖွဲ့တွေ ဖော်ဆောင်လာတဲ့ ထိုးစစ်ဟာ ပိုကျယ်ပြန့်ပြီး နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ လွှမ်းခြုံတဲ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး လက်နက်ကိုင် တွန်းလှန်မှုနဲ့ တဆက်တစပ်တည်း ဖြစ်လာမလားဆိုတာကို အသေးစိတ် ဆန်းစစ် သွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Human Rights Foundation • July 31 2023

Threats Against Journalists in Asia: Online Trolling and Jailing of Reporters

In Asia, freedom of the press continues to erode, especially in authoritarian regimes where journalists are often targeted in broad daylight. More and more, journalists are put behind bars or face strategic lawsuits against public participation, otherwise known as SLAPP, for reporting what’s actually happening on the ground. Over the past three years, not only have several independent media outlets had their licenses revoked, but autocratic regimes across the region continue using a variety of t

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute • July 10 2023

Webinar on “Myanmar’s Humanitarian Challenges in 2023”

Myanmar continues to face daunting humanitarian challenges in 2023. The military coup in 2021 compounded humanitarian needs which arose prior to and during the pandemic. Cyclone Mocha in May 2023 added to mounting humanitarian needs. In this webinar, four speakers with policy and/or research experience shared their assessments of Myanmar’s humanitarian challenges and responses in 2023.

Tuesday, 20 June 2023 – The ISEAS Myanmar Studies Programme invited former Ambassador Robert Chua, Dr Alistair

The News Lens International Edition • May 17 2023

How Myanmar’s Junta Uses Telecom Companies to Target Journalists

With Myanmar’s four mobile service providers now either directly or indirectly linked to the military, sensitive user data is more easily accessible and could be used to persecute opposition voices, experts say.

WASHINGTON — Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military has consolidated control over the country

ဧရာဝတီ • May 1 2023

စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို AA မည်သို့အသုံးချသနည်း

လွန်ခဲ့သော ၂ နှစ်အတွင်း တပ်တော်ရက္ခိုင့် (AA) သည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ကို ထိန်းချုပ်မှု ကျယ်ပြန့်နက်ရှိုင်းစေရန် လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။

အနောက်ဘက်တွင် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နှင့် ထိစပ်နေသော မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်သည် တနိုင်ငံလုံးတွင် ပြည်တွင်းစစ် အရှိန်မြင့်မားနေသော်လည်း အင်အားအကြီးမားဆုံး တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်များအနက် တခုဖြစ်သော တပ်တော်ရက္ခိုင့် (AA) ၏ လက်တွေ့ထိန်းချုပ်မှုအောက်တွင် နှိုင်းယှဉ်ချက်အားဖြင့် တည်ငြိမ်နေသည်။

Stimson Center • March 10 2023

The Arakan Army & the Resistance Movement in Myanmar • Stimson Center

February 1 marked the second anniversary of the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. As the junta continues to employ violent assaults against the population, the role of ethnic armed organizations remains crucial in advancing the resistance movement. In Rakhine State, the Arakan Army represents the largest and most consequential ethnic armed group in the region, with significant ability to sway the movement’s future development.

East-West Center | www.eastwestcenter.org • March 2 2023

Two Years After the Coup: Media in Myanmar

Since the military-led coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2022, the country has nose-dived into political and economic turmoil yet again. In addition to daily attacks against its own people, the junta has systematically increased surveillance of its citizens and clamped down on freedom of movement and speech, effectively curtailing the past decade’s democratic reforms and the promising media landscape. Myanmar journalists are no strangers to the extreme dangers of reporting on their country, the sec

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute • January 18 2023

Webinar on "Myanmar Twenty-Two Months After The Coup"

In this webinar, four experts offered their thoughts on the challenges of Myanmar’s multidimensional crisis, and prevailing sentiments towards those challenges. One of the four experts, serving as discussant, also contributed her assessment of the rapidly changing political landscape within Myanmar, access to humanitarian aid and responses from the regional partners to the Myanmar crisis.

5 December 2022, Monday – The ISEAS Myanmar Studies Programme convened a webinar under Chatham House Rule i

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