Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/05/2025

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Aug 05, 2025 06:36 pm Myanmar Junta Reinstates Warrantless Arrests, Home Raids Ahead of Election Rebranded regime resuspends key privacy laws despite lifting emergency rule. read on website

Aug 05, 2025 06:15 pm Clashes Continue After Myanmar Junta Flotilla Arrives in Bhamo A depleted junta flotilla carrying reinforcements from Mandalay has docked in the strategic town of Bhamo amid ongoing clashes with the Kachin resistance. read on website

Aug 05, 2025 05:38 pm Shattered Lands: How Empire's Collapse Shaped Asia Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain's Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the legacies of conflict they left behind. read on website

Aug 05, 2025 03:43 pm Kachin Resistance Umbrella Vows to Keep Fighting Despite Chinese Pressure The umbrella group Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team says it remains committed to overthrowing the junta despite Chinese pressure to lay down arms. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Myanmar Junta Proxy Party Mobilizes Ultranationalists to Back Election Political Prisoners Denied Medical Care in Loikaw Jail, Myanmar Rights Group Says Myanmar Junta Flotilla Battles 500km Upriver to Reinforce Besieged Bhamo Myanmar Junta Ramps Up Rhetoric Against Timor Leste Beyond Reaction: A Revolutionary Strategy for Defeating Myanmar Junta's Electoral Farce

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/04/2025

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Aug 04, 2025 08:20 pm Myanmar Junta Proxy Party Mobilizes Ultranationalists to Back Election USDP chair Khin Yi, a longtime regime enforcer, met with prominent nationalists in Yangon to gain their support for Min Aung Hlaing's bid to become "elected president." read on website

Aug 04, 2025 08:06 pm Political Prisoners Denied Medical Care in Loikaw Jail, Myanmar Rights Group Says KPPA reports worsening conditions, no family access or medicine, and a recent inmate death as Myanmar's military tightens restrictions at the prison. read on website

Aug 04, 2025 07:00 pm Myanmar Junta Flotilla Battles 500km Upriver to Reinforce Besieged Bhamo Eleven of convoy's original 17 supply vessels survive repeated ambushes in setback for Kachin resistance forces fighting to seize strategic town. read on website

Aug 04, 2025 04:06 pm Myanmar Junta Ramps Up Rhetoric Against Timor Leste Regime mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar accuses the staunchly anti-junta government in Dili of "cavorting with terrorists" over friendly contacts with the parallel National Unity Government. read on website

Aug 04, 2025 12:58 pm Beyond Reaction: A Revolutionary Strategy for Defeating Myanmar Junta's Electoral Farce Condemning the regime's rigged poll won't stop global acceptance—the resistance must take control of the narrative through coordinated force and political legitimacy read on website

MORE ARTICLES Security Beyond Borders: China's Private Armies Coup Leader Rebrands Regime and Declares 'Second Chapter' of Rule Political Assassinations and Myanmar's Destiny Myanmar Junta Announces Martial Law in Resistance-Controlled Townships Before Election Playing dress-up for a fake democracy

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/02/2025

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Aug 02, 2025 09:34 am Security Beyond Borders: China's Private Armies Private Chinese security companies are increasingly blurring the line between protecting Beijing's investments and outright interference in conflicts abroad, warns Rishan Sen. read on website

Aug 02, 2025 09:09 am Coup Leader Rebrands Regime and Declares 'Second Chapter' of Rule Also this week, the junta imposed harsh penalties to protect its bogus poll, overlooked education in new cabinet, and text-spammed the resistance. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Political Assassinations and Myanmar's Destiny Myanmar Junta Announces Martial Law in Resistance-Controlled Townships Playing dress-up for a fake democracy Myanmar Junta Boss Forms New Government With Eye on December Election Imaginary Conversations With Min Aung Hlaing

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/01/2025

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Aug 01, 2025 07:52 pm Political Assassinations and Myanmar's Destiny From Gen. Aung San to U Ko Ni, Myanmar's long history of assassinations highlights the moral dilemmas and lasting impact of political violence. read on website

Aug 01, 2025 07:23 pm Myanmar Junta Announces Martial Law in Resistance-Controlled Townships The imposition of martial law suggests the regime will struggle to hold elections in those townships unless it takes control of them ahead of the polls. read on website

Aug 01, 2025 11:33 am Playing dress-up for a fake democracy read on website

MORE ARTICLES Myanmar Junta Boss Forms New Government With Eye on December Election Imaginary Conversations With Min Aung Hlaing China's Strategy to Reverse Ethnic Armies' Gains in Myanmar US Lifting Sanctions on Myanmar Junta Allies 'Unconscionable': UN Expert US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions

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