Myanmar junta’s conscription plan lays bare toll of fighting rebels
Reuters The Myanmar’s military conscription plan reveals the heavy toll that months of incessant fighting against rebels have had on its troops and the struggles the generals are facing to replenish their ranks, analysts, diplomats and a defector said. The plan, which was announced this week, comes after the junta lost control of swathes of […]
Myanmar: Three years after coup, junta chief under unprecedented pressure
Reuters correspondents report on the situation in Myanmar, three years after a military coup… Reuters In mid-January, at a small gathering in a cantonment town in Myanmar, hard line pro-military monk Pauk Kotaw suggested that the country’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing step down and his deputy take over. The crowd cheered in agreement, according to […]
Essay: Myanmar’s misery – three years after the military coup, is there any end in sight for a ravaged country?
ADAM SIMPSON and NICHOLAS FARRELLY, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at the situation in Myanmar, three years after the democratically elected government was overthrown in a military coup…