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In Memory: A 2022 interview with Chin activist Salai Ngun San Aung


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

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February 28, 2026


Real Stories not Tales: Story of Su


4 Minutes To ReadSu (pseudonym) speaks about the challenges and opportunities for feminists and young women in Myanmar since the coup.

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June 29, 2022


Real Stories Not Tales: Story of Gu Gu (Part 2)


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.

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January 20, 2022


Real Stories Not Tales: Story of Mai Lay (Part 1)


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.

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January 19, 2022


“A Thousand Fires:” Anti-Imperialist Filmmaking in Magway’s Oilfields


10 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind interviews filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky about his film, “A Thousand Fires,” set in Magway.

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December 7, 2021


Humanitarian Considerations in Myanmar: A Discussion with David Mathieson (Part 1)


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.  

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September 7, 2021


Real Stories Not Tales, A Collection of Youth Stories (Part 3): A Rakhine perspective Post-Coup


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 […]

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August 23, 2021


Real Stories Not Tales, A Collection of Youth Stories (Part 2): Hope is the last to die


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.

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August 19, 2021


Real Stories Not Tales, A Collection of Youth Stories (Part 1): Heartbroken Kachin youth decides it is time to go back home


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.

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August 18, 2021


Human Rights in Myanmar: A discussion with U Aung Myo Min (Part 2)


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.

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May 28, 2021


Human Rights in Myanmar: A discussion with U Aung Myo Min (Part 1)


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. 

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May 27, 2021


A Conversation with U Pe Aung Lin


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 […]

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March 25, 2019


#MeToo in Myanmar: How a Twitter Hashtag Amplifies Women’s Agency in a Formerly Isolated Country where Gender Inequality Reigns Supreme


5 Minutes To ReadActivists May Sabe Phyu and researchers Aye Thiri Kyaw and Stephanie Miedema discuss the #MeToo movement in Myanmar.

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August 29, 2018


Reflecting on the Saffron Revolution, In Poetry and Prose


5 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind talks with poet Khet Mar about her poem, “The Wound.”

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September 20, 2017


Min Ko Naing and the Saffron Revolution


8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud and Thinn Thinn interviewed Min Ko Naing in July in Yangon. Mael Raynaud relates the conversation.

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August 21, 2017


A Conversation with Mikael Gravers: Research among the Karen, Past and Present [Part 2]


7 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.

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July 6, 2017



A Candid Conversation with a Fellow Researcher


7 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks with Yi Li about her new book on the Chinese migrant community in colonial Burma.

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April 28, 2017


“They Do Not Count Us”: Resisting the Myitsone Dam beyond China, the US, and Big Geopolitics


6 Minutes To ReadLaur Kiik talks with a person who was at the root of the Myitsone resistance.

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April 17, 2017


The Diary of a Quiet Man


9 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks to a relative about his “Burma years.”

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February 8, 2017


A Punk in Yangon


5 Minutes To ReadKlara Christensen sheds light on the underground music scene in Yangon.

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February 5, 2016


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