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Myanmar and the Southeast Asian press squeeze

11.04.18 Oliver Slow/ Frontier Across Southeast Asia – but especially Myanmar, Cambodia and the Philippines – journalists are facing arrest, intimidation and violence. On the afternoon of December 12 in Myanmar, Ma Pan Ei Mon... Read more

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Myanmar: A mass grave, an unprecedented admission and a few unanswered questions
29.01.18

The unprecedented admission by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar national army) that security forces were...

This is not Myanmar’s path to peace
18.01.18

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For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction
11.01.18

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Reuters journalists arrests a damning reflection on the state of Myanmar's democratic transition
20.12.17

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In Myanmar, possibly 'genocide', says UN rights chief
18.12.17

The UN rights chief told AFP Monday that Myanmar clearly "planned" violent attacks on its...

In Myanmar, women targeted by human trafficking in Kachin
11.12.17

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Possible 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar: UN rights chief
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Documents of reference

Myanmar Constitution (2008)

National Ceasefire Agreement (2015)

Annan Commission report on Rakhine (2017)

Useful websites

Ministry of Information

Frontier Myanmar

Myanmar Times

Section dedicated to the national peace talks

Voice of Burma

Myanmar Peace Monitor

Other focus countries

Central African Rep.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Mali

Tunisia

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Myanmar and the Southeast Asian press squeeze

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