8 Minutes To Read Emily Fishbein remembers Salai Ngun San Aung, a Chin activist.

Tags: Chin history, Chinland Defense Forces, ethnic identity, Spring Revolution
February 28, 2026
4 Minutes To ReadSu (pseudonym) speaks about the challenges and opportunities for feminists and young women in Myanmar since the coup.

Tags: feminism, Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT)
June 29, 2022
3 Minutes To ReadIn Part 2 of a 2-part series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Gu Gu speaks about the impact of the coup on their life.

Tags: karenni, military coup, National Unity Government (NUG), Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), youth
January 20, 2022
3 Minutes To ReadIn Part 1 of a 2-part series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Mai Lay speaks about his experience in Kachin state.

Tags: COVID-19, ethnic minorities, Kachin, Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT)
January 19, 2022
10 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind interviews filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky about his film, “A Thousand Fires,” set in Magway.

Tags: activism, film, labour, Magway
December 7, 2021
17 Minutes To ReadThe Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHRC) interviews David Mathieson, an independent analyst researching and working on human rights and humanitarian issues in Myanmar, in this two-part interview.

Tags: human rights, humanitarian aid, international aid, peace process
September 7, 2021
4 Minutes To ReadIn Part 3 of a 3-part series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Khin Thandar (pseudonym) tells her story post-coup that highlights a different reality and involvement than the rest of the […]

August 23, 2021
4 Minutes To ReadIn Part 2 of a 3-part series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Ko Democracy (pseudonym) tells us how the coup has affected his life and his loved ones in Myitkyina.

Tags: democracy, Kachin, Myitkyina, National League for Democracy (NLD), National Unity Government (NUG), Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT)
August 19, 2021
4 Minutes To ReadIn Part 1 of a 3-part special series by Real Stories Not Tales (RSNT), Hpare Salum (pseudonym) decides it is time to go back home.

Tags: ethnic armies, Kachin, military coup, Yangon, youth
August 18, 2021
11 Minutes To ReadThis is Part 2 of a two-part interview with the newly-appointed Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government, U Aung Myo Min. Read Part One here.

Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, ethnic armies, human rights, National Unity Government (NUG), People's Defence Force (PDF), Rohingya
May 28, 2021
12 Minutes To ReadThis is Part 1 of a two-part interview with the newly appointed Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government, U Aung Myo Min.

Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, human rights, National League for Democracy (NLD), National Unity Government (NUG)
May 27, 2021
8 Minutes To ReadU Pe Aung Lin is the chairman of the Myanmar Center to Empower Regional Parliaments (MCERP). This post is a transcript of a conversation with Mael Raynaud, the Head of […]

Tags: decentralization, democracy, National League for Democracy (NLD), parliament, states and regions
March 25, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadActivists May Sabe Phyu and researchers Aye Thiri Kyaw and Stephanie Miedema discuss the #MeToo movement in Myanmar.

Tags: activism, gender, gender inequality, sexual violence, women's rights
August 29, 2018
5 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind talks with poet Khet Mar about her poem, “The Wound.”

Tags: Poetry, political prisoners, saffron revolution
September 20, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud and Thinn Thinn interviewed Min Ko Naing in July in Yangon. Mael Raynaud relates the conversation.

Tags: protest, saffron revolution
August 21, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.

Tags: anthropology, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 6, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.

Tags: anthropology, ethnic conflict, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 5, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks with Yi Li about her new book on the Chinese migrant community in colonial Burma.

Tags: Book Review, Chinese, diaspora, migrants, migration
April 28, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadLaur Kiik talks with a person who was at the root of the Myitsone resistance.

Tags: China, geopolitics, Kachin, Myitsone
April 17, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks to a relative about his “Burma years.”

Tags: history, Japan, Shan State, World War II
February 8, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadKlara Christensen sheds light on the underground music scene in Yangon.

February 5, 2016