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.

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

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

The Right to Seek Safety Series! Learn how #Rakhine is impacted by the junta's violence. Join US Campaign for Burma, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and MIRR Alliance for a discussion of the experiences of those displaced since the coup, with a special focus on Rakhine state. Learn more about the ongoing violence against citizens in Burma, as well as the current challenges of IDPs and refugees. This is Part V of the Right to Seek Safety Series. Dec 10, 2022 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) RSVP - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zofvfrn4QJiGCogRWCV1_A

The aftermath of the February 2021 coup in Myanmar continues to show a bleak landscape. The State Administration Council (SAC) is setting in motion plans for an election in 2023 while suppressing dissent. The disruptions to the economy arising from the coup have negatively affected the lives of many Myanmar citizens. Resistance to the SAC regime persists on multiple fronts and in various forms.

After almost two years since the Feb 2021 coup, this is the time the international community and ASEAN really help the people of Myanmar instead of issuing another round of empty statements on paper. Please join us on a panel featuring Hla Hpone "Jack" Myint, Kyaw Hsan Hlaing and Prof. Amitav Acharya discussing the ongoing conflicts in Myanmar after the coup and how international community and ASEAN should engage, moderated by me at American University School of International Service.

The returning war since August 2022 shows no signs of stopping now. The negative impacts of the armed conflict on the civilian population are also quite visible. The current report will also consist of three key sections such as new developments regarding the changing conflict map and its consequences, notes on the civilian causalities, and the topic of humanitarian challenges. In the final part, four key highlights during the previous three months have been mentioned. The objectives of the current report are to present the changing conflict map in Rakhine and its neighboring areas and to analyze the relations among changes in terms of armed clashes plus casualties, arrests, and humanitarian crisis. The collected data in this report mainly rely on local, national, and regional news and observations.

In this event, journalist Kyaw Hsan Hlaing will share his first hand experiences in reporting and human rights activism during the last two years of NLD’s term, gained while covering the civil war between the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, and the Burma military under the world’s longest internet shutdown, imposed by the civilian government in his native state. Since the military coup on 1st February last year, his firsthand reporting also offers a window in public protests, the civil disob.....

In the six months following its February 2021 coup d’état, the Myanmar junta murdered, imprisoned, tortured, disappeared, forcibly displaced, and persecuted civilians in acts that amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new report released on March 24 by the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School and the human rights organization Fortify Rights. The report makes new contributions to accountability and international justice efforts targeting the junta’s atrocit

This report was researched and written by a research team consisting of independent consultants Laura Haigh and Kyaw Hsan Hlaing. The research team was tasked with researching the impact of the coup on freedom of expression and civic space in Myanmar, analysing findings against international law, and developing recommendations for key stakeholders. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect those of the member organisations of the PROTECT consortium.