A senior Myanmar diplomat in Washington has defected, warning that oppression is rising in his homeland despite elections touted by the dominant military as a transition to democracy. Deputy chief of ...

Kyaw Win is a former communist who lost his beliefs in Marxism-Leninism, and Maoism. He is arguably the only individual in the history of Burma to decline the invitation of the Communist Party of ...

This edited article by Nyein Nyein is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news site in Myanmar, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Despite having been locked ...

As a civil disobedience movement entered its second month, the military rulers added charges against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. March 1, 2021 Her death came without warning. The single mother, Mah Daisy ...

When Ko Aung Kyaw erased his cellphone contacts to protect his sources, he knew his interrogators would make him pay a horrific price. He did it anyway. By Richard C. Paddock When more than 100 ...