Rohingya Noticeably Absent From U.N. Conference
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.N. efforts to address the Rohingya crisis, an internet blackout in Afghanistan, and the collapse of one of Indonesia’s oldest Islamic ...
Tag: Myanmar
The Man Who Made the U.N. Cool
On Oct. 16, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy learned that the Soviet Union was building missile bases in Cuba. Soviet ships were on their way to the island nation, ...
Trump Is Inching Toward a Major Strategic Blunder in Myanmar
U.S. President Donald Trump’s fixation with securing access to rare earth minerals is creating the conditions for a poor strategic decision in Myanmar. According to a recent report, the Trump ...
Myanmar’s Election Has China’s Fingerprints All Over It
Four years after he plunged the country into chaos with his 2021 coup, Myanmar’s commander in chief, Min Aung Hlaing, handed power over to an interim government—led by himself. Observers ...
Rivals Unite in Myanmar’s Southeast
MON AND KAYIN STATES, Myanmar—Before the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Nai Kyi San’s only firsthand combat experience was fighting against another rebel group: the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). “I ...
Do Good Fences Actually Make Good Neighbors?
Along the Tiau River that divides Mizoram in India from Chin State in Myanmar, get-togethers by the water are a common weekend pastime. Since alcohol sales are banned in Mizoram, ...
After Myanmar’s Earthquake, Where Is the Military?
Internet restrictions and tight media controls initially limited footage of the destruction caused by a massive earthquake in central Myanmar last month. In one of the first videos to trickle ...
Myanmar’s Earthquake Exposes Political Fault Lines
When the earth shook in central Myanmar on March 28, many in the Buddhist-majority country waited for the aftermath to undermine the military junta’s repressive rule—reflecting a belief that natural ...
