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What's Happening in Myanmar: Thadingyut Massacre

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 21h

This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, the military massacres civilians at a Buddhist celebration, the UEC posts problematic voter lists, and election experts Amaël Vier and Tharindu Abeyrathna discuss a new report on the regime elections.

With Amaël Vier, election consultant and analyst, and Tharindu Abeyrathna, senior program officer for campaign and advocacy at the Asian Network for Free Elections. This week on episode 48 of What’s H...

‘Nothing you can do’: Spectre of starvation haunts Rakhine

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 1d

Conflict and a transportation blockade by the junta have led to widespread hunger in Rakhine State, leading residents to take desperate measures, from selling their own blood to killing themselves.

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Conflict and a transportation blockade by the junta have led to widespread hunger in Rakhine State, leading residents to take desperate measures, from selling their own blood to killing themselves.

Myanmar junta strike kills dozens at festival protest: residents

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 3d

AFP | A Myanmar regime airstrike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee and a local committee member told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.

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A Myanmar regime airstrike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee and a local committee member told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.

Frontier appoints new CEO, as founder bows out

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 4d

STATEMENT | Frontier has appointed Aung Htin Aung as new chief executive officer, to take over from founder Sonny Swe, who announced late last year he was stepping down after a decade at the helm.

Frontier has appointed a new chief executive officer to take over from founder Sonny Swe, who announced late last year he was stepping down after a decade at the helm.

What's Happening in Myanmar: Kyaukme Falls & UN Rohingya Talks

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 7d

This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, the military retakes Kyaukme, Min Aung Hlaing finishes his Central Asia visit, and author and Frontier digital editor Carlos Sardiña Galache talks through this week’s high-level UN conference on the Rohingya and Arakan Army leadership.

With Carlos Sardiña Galache, author and Frontier Myanmar digital editor. This week on episode 47 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military retakes Kyaukme, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing returns fr...

Working for peanuts: The precarious lives of women in central Myanmar

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 7d

Women in Myanmar’s central plains are unable to travel for work due to security concerns in the midst of civil war, and those who do work are struggling to support their families as they receive lower pay than men.

Women in Myanmar’s central plains are unable to travel for work due to security concerns in the midst of civil war, and those who do work are struggling to support their families as they receive lower...

Rohingya tell UN of Myanmar bloodshed, suffering

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 10d

AFP | A Rohingya refugee who fled a military onslaught in northern Rakhine State along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending over seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority.

A Rohingya refugee who fled a military onslaught in northern Rakhine State along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending over seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence a...

The cost of trade or Myanmar's economic struggle amid shortages and soaring prices

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 10d

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Myanmar is facing severe economic challenges, with commodity prices surging and shortages occurring due to the junta’s closure of border crossings and air freight restrictions. Ordinary citizens and small-scale traders are struggling with rising costs and dwindling supplies.

Myanmar is facing severe economic challenges, with commodity prices surging and shortages occurring due to the junta's closure of border crossings and air freight restrictions. Ordinary citizens and s...

UN says Myanmar military razed Rohingya villages in ‘a systematic pattern’

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 11d

Myanmar’s military razed Rohingya villages and farmland in northern Rakhine State in “a coordinated and organized operation” to strip the minority of land rights, a United Nations’ independent investigative body said.

Myanmar’s military razed Rohingya villages and farmland in northern Rakhine State in “a coordinated and organized operation” to strip the minority of land rights, a United Nations' independent investi...

Quake-hit Myanmar city becomes epicentre of junta election offensive

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 12d

AFP | Six Myanmar war widows speak softly of their grief as they walk inside the crumbling walls of Mandalay Palace, fresh arrivals in an earthquake-wracked city strained anew by conflict.

The junta has pledged elections beginning on December 28 and has touted them as a path to peace with its myriad adversaries – from ragtag pro-democracy partisans to semi-professional ethnic armed orga...

What's Happening in Myanmar: Rethinking Aid as Sweden Drops Out

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 14d

This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, resistance gains in Banmauk, a KIA training base is bombed, rights organisations lament Sweden’s development aid cessation, and Dustin Barter and Stella Naw discuss their new report on aid for the pluralistic state in Myanmar.

With Dustin Barter and Stella Naw, two co-authors of a new ODI report on humanitarianism and revolutionary state-building in Myanmar. This week on episode 46 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the resist...

Seeking solidarity for Myanmar in a cruel world

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 15d

OPINION | As the world order disintegrates, the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar needs to innovate and forge international alliances with like-minded movements to defeat the regime, argues David Scott Mathieson.

As the world order disintegrates, the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar needs to innovate and forge international alliances with like-minded movements to defeat the regime.

The perils of abortion for Myanmar women

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 16d

Abortion carries a strong social stigma and is illegal in Myanmar, pushing many women to seek it in Thailand or, for those who cannot afford travelling to the neighbouring country, the use of dangerous pills bought on TikTok.

Abortion carries a strong social stigma and is illegal in Myanmar, pushing many women to seek it in Thailand or, for those who cannot afford travelling to the neighbouring country, the use of dangerou...

Refugees in limbo battle depression

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 18d

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Myanmar nationals who have spent years in refugee camps in Thailand awaiting resettlement in the United States now face increased depression and other mental health issues since President Donald Trump halted his country’s refugee programs.

Myanmar nationals who have spent years in refugee camps in Thailand awaiting resettlement in the United States now face increased depression and other mental health issues since President Donald Trump...

What's Happening in Myanmar: The 4th Generation of Military Leaders

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 21d

This week on Frontier’s podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, regime gains in Bhamo, airstrike kills dozens of students in a high school in Kyauktaw, and ISP-Myanmar’s Naing Min Khant talks about the upcoming fourth generation of the military leadership.

With Naing Min Khant, emerging researcher at the Institute for Strategy and Policy, Myanmar. This week on episode 45 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military regime makes gains in Bhamo, the air f...

Viral justice: Social media and the court of public opinion

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 22d

Frustrated by a lack of institutional accountability, internet users in Myanmar are increasingly turning to social media to raise awareness – and air grievances – about perceived injustice.

Frustrated by a lack of institutional accountability, internet users in Myanmar are increasingly turning to social media to raise awareness – and air grievances – about perceived injustice.

Q&A: ‘Policies will have to change’

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 23d

Q&A | Economic analyst U Thet Zaw talks to Frontier about trade restrictions imposed last month by the military regime, and how they are leading to shortages and steep increases in the price of consumer goods.

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Economic analyst U Thet Zaw talks to Frontier about trade restrictions imposed last month by the military regime, and how they are leading to shortages and steep increases in the price of consumer goo...

ကမ္ဘာ့ပါဝါဇာတ်ခုံ အခင်းအကျင်းသစ်တွင် မိမိကိုယ်ကို ပွဲထုတ်နေသော အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကော်မရှင်

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 26d

ကမ္ဘာ့ပါဝါ အခင်းအကျင်းသစ်ပေါ်တွင် စစ်ကော်မရှင်သည် ၎င်းတို့နှင့် မထိုက်တန်သော တရားဝင်မှုကို ရရှိအောင် ကြိုးပမ်းလာပြီး အာဏာရှင်နိုင်ငံအချို့ကလည်း စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို ပိုမို တံခါးဖွင့် ကြိုဆိုလာနေသည်။

အဆိုးဘက်သို့ ထိုးဆင်းနေသော ကမ္ဘာ့ပါဝါ အခင်းအကျင်းပြောင်းလဲမှုအပေါ် အခွင့်ကောင်းယူလျက် စစ်ကော်မရှင်သည် ၎င်းတို့နှင့် မထိုက်တန်သော တရားဝင်မှုကို ရရှိအောင် ကြိုးပမ်းလာပြီး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးဆဲနိုင်ငံများထဲက အာဏာ...

No class: National Unity Government schools slow to reopen

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 28d

In May the NUG ordered schools in areas under its control to close until security measures could be implemented to protect against junta airstrikes, but many villages lack the funds to make the changes, leaving children without access to education.

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In May the NUG ordered schools in areas under its control to close until security measures could be implemented to protect against junta airstrikes, but many villages lack the funds to make the change...

Myanmar junta's poll result due end of January: election official

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 29d

AFP | An official from Myanmar’s junta-stacked Union Election Commission said on Thursday that the results of its upcoming and widely disputed national poll were expected by the end of January next year.

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An official from Myanmar's junta-stacked Union Election Commission said on Thursday that the results of its upcoming and widely disputed national poll were expected by the end of January next year.

What's Happening in Myanmar: Military Electoral Machinery

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 29d

This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, the US sanctions key members of the Kayin State Border Guard Force, and Myanmar elections expert Michael Lidauer runs through what we can expect from the military’s performative polls.

With Michael Lidauer, an international elections expert with experience in Myanmar since 2010. This week on episode 44 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the Kayin State Border Guard Force declares its s...

Regime airstrike on school leaves trauma in its wake

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · Sep 9

DOH ATHAN | On May 12 the junta conducted an airstrike on a school in Oh Tein Twin village in Sagaing Region, killing more than 20 students and leaving the survivors, many of whom suffered severe injuries, to deal with lingering psychological and physical trauma.

On May 12 the junta conducted an airstrike on a school in Oh Tein Twin village in Sagaing Region, killing more than 20 students and leaving the survivors, many of whom suffered severe injuries, to dea...

Q&A: ‘Civilians should never be targeted’

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · Sep 8

Q&A | Mon Unity Party spokesperson Nai Than Shwe talks to Frontier about strategic and security challenges the party is facing in preparing for the upcoming election organised by the regime.

Mon Unity Party spokesperson Nai Than Shwe talks to Frontier about strategic and security challenges the party is facing in preparing for the upcoming election organised by the regime.

What's Happening in Myanmar: The Anti-Sham Election Campaign

Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · Sep 6

This week on Frontier’s podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing visits China as his military continues its offensives at home, and Generations Solidarity Coalition of Nationalities member Nandar discusses the anti-sham election campaign’s aims and strategies.

With Nandar, member of the Generations Solidarity Coalition of Nationalities, and participant in the anti-sham elections campaign. This week on episode 43 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, coup leader S...