Story Archive
2021-05-20
In response to the increasingly harsh tactics used by Myanmar security forces, protesters are staging quick demonstrations to get out their message and then dispersing before the police move in.
2021-05-14
Amid the continued military crackdown in Myanmar, Muslims in Yangon this week observed Eid al-Fitr at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
2021-04-16
Protesters staged a variety of strikes and demonstrations this week during Thingyan, the traditional five-day Buddhist New Year holiday.
2021-04-08
Protesters in Myanmar began a “marching shoe strike” on Thursday, placing flowers in shoes at protest locations or in their homes. Organizers wrote that the symbolic protest would honor the more than 600 people killed by the military and said, “For every step, a flower blooms.”
2021-04-02
Artists throughout Myanmar have been using their skills to oppose the military government and energize anti-coup demonstrators.
2021-03-31
Attacks in Myanmar’s Karen State have killed at least 10 people and forced many more to flee their villages - and in some cases the country - since the violence began March 27.
2021-03-26
As Myanmar security forces have ramped up their violent attacks, protestors have adapted by building increasingly sturdy defenses.
2021-03-24
Myanmar's military regime has used brutal and wide-ranging tactics as part of a bid to shut down the protest movement demanding restoration of democratic rule.
2021-03-23
Satellite imagery shows destruction caused by a massive fire that swept through a Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday at least 15 people died in the blaze and at least 400 remain missing.
2021-03-19
Protesters in Myanmar this week began using a greater variety of improvised weapons in their struggle against heavily armed government security forces.
2021-03-08
Today we spotlight some of the women journalists at RFA who help bring credible reporting to our audiences, offering an alternative to their governments’ disinformation.
2021-03-05
Protesters in Myanmar, have been creating makeshift shields - often decorated with political or generational messages - from steel barrels and other materials to defend themselves against weapons fire from government security forces.
2021-03-02
Sam Rainsy, who is living in exile in France, has been sentenced in absentia on wide-ranging charges by Cambodian courts.
2021-03-01
Sidewalk shrines to Sunday’s police shooting victims were erected in Myanmar on Monday, while at the same time, the first funerals for the victims were being held. Despite the violent government crackdown, protesters gathered again Monday, building barricades across streets before being dispersed by security forces firing tear gas and stun grenades.
2021-02-28
In the deadliest day since the Myanmar military ousted the government of Aung San Suu Kyi a month ago, security forces killed at least 18 demonstrators and wounded more than 30 on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The violence took place in at least six major cities, including Yangon and Mandalay.
