Swe Win

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Articles written by Swe Win

Ye Ye Nywe at the house where her family members were killed (Myanmar Now)

Ghosts in the wind: Police said an ex-cop killed his family and then himself, but they misled the public about key evidence

Myanmar Now investigation finds police appear to have lied about forensic doctor’s finding in case that shocked the country

Published on Dec 31, 2020

Kyaw Myint arrives at Mandalay’s Chan Aye Tharzan township court on Friday (Yan Moe Naing/Myanmar Now)

A Lexus, $3,600 cognac, and ex-military men shining shoes - arrested party leader’s lavish lifestyle on hold

He enjoyed years of freedom despite being a fugitive. Now, Kyaw Myint is back in the same prison he escaped from 20 years ago

Published on Oct 2, 2020

Nationalist Mob Shuts Down Ramadan Prayers in Yangon

One man was threatened with a knife during the unrest but police made no arrests

Published on May 16, 2019

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi on his way to Nay Pyi Taw to attend a rally in support of amending the constitutions, on 31st March (Photo- Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi’s Facebook)

Politics

Founder of Human Dignity Film Institute hit with military defamation lawsuit

Complaint comes after Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi criticised the military’s role in politics on Facebook

Published on Apr 2, 2019

People in Yangon participated in a rally supporting the changes to the military-drafted Constitution.( Photo: Hkun Latt)

Protestors rally in support of NLD’s charter change bid

One demonstrator said it is ‘crucial to remove the army from politics’

Published on Mar 3, 2019

Students listen to a lecture at the institute's Hlegu branch (Photo: Myanmar Now)

Politics

‘The Tatmadaw is the mother and the father!’ - inside the militarised schools training Myanmar’s civil servants

Students are taught a ‘strict sense of obedience’ and must clap exactly 20 times at the end of each class.

Published on Jan 30, 2019

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director general retired major Dr Than Htut in Mandalay regional court (Photos by Khin Hnin Wai/ Myanmar Now)

How a chance meeting on a night bus brought down FDA chief

Acting on a tip-off from a fellow passenger, a crusading MP exposed allegations that a top official had skimmed public money to build houses for himself

Published on Jan 14, 2019

Inmates at a plantation area near Yarzagyo prison labor camp in Kalay township, Sagging Region. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)

Human Rights

‘Skeletons covered in skin’: inside Myanmar’s labour camps

Eight prisoners made a break for it, ignoring the pain in their emaciated bodies as they sprinted from the labour camp in Kabaw Valley in Myanmar’s...

Published on Nov 8, 2018

Last September, a group of Buddhist monks walked in front of the office of Union Solidarity and Development Party in the town of Pathein in the Ayeyarwady Delta to join a rally which which was held to celebrate the success of ‘race and religion’ laws. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)

Myanmar public dismisses Buddhist nationalism with a ballot

In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is seen as a victory of the people over the military and its...

Published on Nov 19, 2015