Ethnic

Ethnic

Attendees gather at Maha Bandula Park in downtown Yangon to celebrate the 70th Karen Martyrs’ Day in August (Sai Zaw/ Myanmar Now)
‘Just for show’ - ethnic affairs ministers say they are prevented from doing their jobs 
Underfunded and understaffed, the ministers depend on other departments to help them with projects
Published on Sep 16, 2020
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