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Nationwide protests against the coup have been responded with murders, torture and mass arrests by the military regime. (Myanmar Now)
Seeking justice in the wake of Myanmar’s coup
The country’s military leaders have acted with impunity for decades, but now there is a mechanism to bring them to justice
Mar 19, 2021
Officials at the office of the Meikhtila Township Election Commission on the evening of the election on Nov. 8. (PHOTO: Phyo Thiha Cho / Myanmar Now)
Why Meikhtila went green - how USDP won in a traumatised city
In the sea of the National League for Democracy’s overwhelming victory in Myanmar’s Nov. 8 elections there was a small island of success for the ruling party. Meikhtila, a city in...
Nov 24, 2015
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 ruling political elite. It’s a price...
Nov 19, 2015
Members of National League for Democracy (NLD) party steer horse-drawn coaches during an election campaign rally in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay region, Myanmar, 24 October 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
In “army town” Pyin Oo Lwin, NLD hopes for victory
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on Sunday, where opposition candidates are mounting a strong challenge to ruling party dominance...
Nov 8, 2015
Thein Nyunt campaigning recently in Yangon. (PHOTO : Myanmar Now/Htet Khaung Lin)
“I have sensed the danger of an ‘elected dictatorship”
Thein Nyunt, chairman of the New National Democracy Party, is a well-known MP in the Lower House of parliament. He was an elected candidate of Thinganggyun Township constituency,...
Nov 7, 2015
A woman on a balcony in an apartment block in Thinganggyun Township, Yangon, with USDP campaign material bearing the president's image, on Nov. 3. (PHOTO: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
Ruling USDP commands shy support in Myanmar’s elections
Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zaw took a day’s leave from his office job this week to join a political rally of the Union Solidarity and Development Party, but found it hard to explain his...
Nov 6, 2015
Dr Aye Maung (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Arakan National Party chairman confident a strong win will bring security for Buddhist Rakhines
Aye Maung is the chairman of the Arakan National Party (ANP), the largest political party in Rakhine State of Myanmar after the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and...
Nov 6, 2015
Arakan National Pary (ANP) campaigning in Pauktaw in Rakhine State on 1 November, 2015. Photo: DMG/Mizzima
With Rohingya disenfranchised, NLD takes on nationalists in southern Rakhine
Soe Win, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate, clutches the microphone and paces about as he shouts questions at a crowd of hundreds of Buddhist Rakhine residents in Sin...
Nov 6, 2015
A family of Kamans including Than Win, the MP candidate running for a seat in the Rakhine State parliament seen in front of their home in Thandwe. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
Myanmar’s Kaman Muslims look to elections to restore their rights
In October two years ago, Zaw Lin ran to the top of a forested hill behind his thatch-roof farm house in this tiny hamlet of Pauktaw in Myanmar’s southern Rakhine state. His family is...
Nov 6, 2015
In Myanmar, not all votes are created equal
When millions of Myanmar citizens go to the polls on Nov. 8, many will be hoping their votes can help make the country a freer and fairer place after half a century of iron-fisted...
Nov 5, 2015
People walking in a street in Mawlamyine city, Mon State, Myanmar. (Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/Mizzima)
As polls near, attacks in Mon State capital raise fears of communal violence
Several unexplained night-time attacks on members of different religious communities in Mawlamyine have put the Mon State capital on edge in recent weeks. Community leaders fear the...
Nov 4, 2015
Toe Toe Aung, Mon State Minister for Civil Development at the USDP office in Mawlamyaing, Mon State. (PHOTO : Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
“Joining a Ma Ba Tha event is a USDP member’s right and choice”
Dr. Toe Toe Aung is the Mon State Minister for Civil Development for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). He is contesting a seat in the state capital Mawlamyine...
Nov 2, 2015
Phyu Phyu Nyunt, NUP candidate for the Yangon Region Parliament. (PHOTO:- Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now)
“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP) in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township’s constituency 2. She has worked in the Ministry of...
Nov 1, 2015

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