Aung San Suu Kyi
U.S. to Declare That Myanmar’s Military Committed Genocide
WASHINGTON — Five years after Myanmar’s military began a killing spree against ethnic Rohingya, driving nearly one million people from their country, the United States has concluded that the widespread campaign of rape, crucifixions, and drownings and burnings of families and children amounted to genocide. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is set to announce […]
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Myanmar Is Mired in Conflict and Chaos a Year After a Coup
In the days after the military in Myanmar seized power on Feb. 1 last year, millions of people took to the streets to oppose the takeover, walking off their jobs in what has become an enduring nationwide civil disobedience movement and resisting the junta’s murderous violence. One year later, the Southeast Asian nation is mired […]
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Aung San Suu Kyi Falls, but Myanmar’s Democratic Hopes Move On
When a court in Myanmar on Monday sentenced Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in custody, it closed a chapter on an era of weak and compromised democracy in a Southeast Asian nation long ruled by a military fist. But already, a new democratic movement has emerged — younger, more progressive, more confrontational […]
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