In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in June 2012 Getty Images On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy ...

The 2021 military coup which ousted democratically-elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been met with widespread opposition, sparking widespread protests and triggering an armed ...

Kim Aris, the son of deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, called for his mother’s release and freedom for the Burmese ...

Sean Turnell, a Sydney academic who served as an economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said bombing in the country’s four-year civil war had struck Karen state after the quake ...

A civil war has been in full swing since 2021, when a military junta seized power. De facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was arrested and imprisoned. Her son, Kim ...

With the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy winning the 2015 Myanmar general elections, Gen. Min Aung Hlaing sought to recover state power for the junta by adopting an adversarial ...

when Min Aung Hlaing's military wrested power from the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Following reports of sporadic clashes even after the recent earthquake, the junta on Wednesday ...

Myanmar's military chief has used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by the end of the year and call on opposition groups fighting the army to ...