8 Minutes To ReadZoheisa (pseudonym) documents how her way of life changed after participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and her resilience as a refugee in Mizoram.
Tags: Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), military coup, Mizoram, refugee, university
July 3, 2023
8 Minutes To ReadCielo (pseudonym) argues that targeting Christians and the re-emergence of Pyu Saw Htee triggered the military’s motivation to commit atrocities.
Tags: bamar, buddhism, Chin State, Christianity, ethnic armed organisations, human rights, Islam, Karen National Union (KNU), karenni, Rohingya, Sagaing
May 15, 2023
8 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar, and Chan* outline the evolving language-in-education landscape following the coup, within and beyond military-controlled territory in Part 2 of a […]
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnicity, federalism, language policy
May 9, 2023
8 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar, and Chan* outline the evolving language-in-education landscape following the coup, within and beyond military-controlled territory in Part 1 of a […]
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnicity, federalism, language policy
May 8, 2023
7 Minutes To ReadJulian (pseudonym) shows how the junta’s use of arson has incurred extreme devastation.
Tags: ethnic armies, farmers, livelihoods, military, National Unity Government (NUG), Sagaing
May 1, 2023
3 Minutes To Readซาลี ฟัง และ มึดา นาวานาถ หารือเกี่ยวกับโครงการผันน้ำยวมที่ถกเถียงเถียงกัน The English version of this article was originally published on April 3, 2023. Read the post here. A Burmese translation is available here.
Tags: borderlands, development, Salween, Thai-Burma border
April 26, 2023
11 Minutes To ReadEmily Fishbein and Kelvin Sinpraw (pseudonym) show how a Kachin tradition defies borders.
Tags: borderlands, borders, culture, India, Jinghpaw, Kachin, Manau, Shapawng Yawng, Singpho
April 24, 2023
26 Minutes To ReadA study by Nyan Corridor describes the military coup’s consequences for political parties and their future options.
Tags: elections, military coup, political dialogue
April 4, 2023
10 Minutes To ReadZali Fung and Mueda Nawanat discuss the contested Yuam River Water Diversion Project. A Thai translation is available here.
Tags: borderlands, development, Salween, Thai-Burma border
April 3, 2023
9 Minutes To ReadPhoenix (pseudonym) reflects on the economic, political, and cultural atmosphere in Rangoon after the February 2021 coup through the eyes of a normal youth.
Tags: COVID-19, migration, military, military coup, Yangon
March 28, 2023
2 Minutes To ReadThe Tea Circle team announces its website relaunch, Burmese publishing, and upcoming initiatives.
Tags: tea circle
March 27, 2023
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind and Hilary Faxon underscore threats posed by a new market for land on Myanmar Facebook.
Tags: agriculture, Facebook, land, social media, Yangon
February 5, 2023
6 Minutes To ReadLian Bawi Thang argues that engagement will not change the corruption and power abuse deeply embedded in the SAC’s bureaucratic and political institutions.
Tags: Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), economy, National League for Democracy (NLD), National Unity Government (NUG), State Administration Council (SAC)
January 17, 2023
5 Minutes To ReadPhoenix (pseudonym) argues that Burma’s current model of teacher-student relations limits debate.
Tags: buddhism, democracy, university
January 5, 2023
7 Minutes To ReadHan Alter (pseudonym) explores how to define civilians in the Spring Revolution.
Tags: civil war, human rights, National Unity Government (NUG), People's Defence Force (PDF), State Administration Council (SAC)
December 5, 2022
8 Minutes To ReadYu Yu Htay discusses food weaponization and how the state of food production in post-coup Myanmar is leading to domestic hunger and undermining the regional food basket.
Tags: civil war, Communist Party of Burma (CPB), ethnic politics, food security, Karen National Union (KNU), military, State Administration Council (SAC)
November 30, 2022
2 Minutes To ReadThe hybrid 15th International Burma Studies Conference will be held from 9-11 June 2023 at the University of Zurich.
Tags: burma studies, featured, research
November 7, 2022
3 Minutes To ReadAung Kaung Myat considers the moral and analytical layers in addressing the military institution as “Tatmadaw” or “sit-tat.”
Tags: featured, military coup, Tatmadaw
October 3, 2022
13 Minutes To ReadAye Lei Tun reveals the institutionalization of patriarchal practices through the NRC application process.
Tags: citizenship, ethnic minorities, feminism, tainyinthar, women
September 12, 2022
9 Minutes To ReadRosalie Metro discusses how Myanmar government textbooks can be used in innovative ways.
Tags: democracy, history, peace
September 5, 2022
9 Minutes To ReadCharlie Artingstoll looks at the challenges facing migrant workers hoping to send remittances to Myanmar.
Tags: economy, finance, labour rights, migrant labour, migrant workers, remittances
August 2, 2022
11 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker notes some of the events during the closing days of a year under the repressive thumb of the Myanmar military.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
July 29, 2022
16 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker describes the bewildering conclusion of an alarming confrontation with Myanmar soldiers and police at his apartment door.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
July 22, 2022
22 Minutes To ReadCorporate Accountability Myanmar (CAM) inquires how global brands respond to labour rights abuses in post-coup Myanmar.
Tags: COVID-19, foreign investment, garment factories, human rights, investment, labour rights, migrant workers, social welfare, trade unions, workers' rights
July 18, 2022
14 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker describes the sudden, ominous arrival of Myanmar soldiers and police at his apartment door.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
July 15, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadLu Nge Khit describes the events of a youth protest in May 2022, in Yangon.
Tags: featured, journalism, Yangon, youth, youth activism
July 13, 2022
8 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker notes the terror and the uncertainty, the bravery and the heroism, that coëxist under the oppressive military rule in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
July 8, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker reflects on how, when people work together, a solution might be found to the military repression in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
July 1, 2022
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
12 Minutes To ReadDavid Brenner reflects on rebel governance in Myanmar and how it challenges Conflict Studies paradigms.
Tags: colonialism, conflict studies, governance, Kachin, Myanmar Studies, nationalism, Pat Jasan
June 27, 2022
8 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker (pseudonym) Editor’s Note: This post is the twenty-ninth installment in an ongoing series, Chronicle of a Coup, comprised of reports written from within Myanmar by Christopher J. Walker (a pseudonym), a longtime resident, which together sketch one person’s first-hand account of the weeks and months following the February 1, 2021, military coup. A selection of his reports will be posted weekly, every Friday. A chronological archive is also available here.
Tea Circle is grateful to Christopher for sharing his personal account of life under military rule in Myanmar. Recognizing that his voice is one of many, we encourage other authors to submit their own accounts.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
June 24, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker (pseudonym) describes the tragic and the comic, how they exist side by side under oppressive military rule in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
June 17, 2022
9 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker (pseudonym) reflects on the effects of COVID-19 and the people’s resilience under military repression in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
June 10, 2022
4 Minutes To ReadOpen letter signatories respond to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s (IEP) recent statement on the Global Terrorism Index report.
Tags: Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP)
June 9, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadKSN (pseudonym) writes about a moment in which they find themselves. This post was originally published on January 12, 2022. Read the Burmese version here. I have not been back home even […]
Tags: COVID-19, myanmar coup
June 8, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadSofie Mortensen and Saw Aung Htun Lin reflect on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar women in Phop Phra, Thailand.
Tags: COVID-19, finance, gender inequality, mental health, migration
June 6, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker (pseudonym) describes the continuing desperation and urgency in confronting COVID-19 and the military repression in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
June 3, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker (pseudonym) describes the desperation and urgency in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic amid the military repression in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
May 27, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker describes the devastating combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and military repression in Myanmar.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
May 20, 2022
3 Minutes To ReadThe Institute for Economics & Peace responds to an open letter regarding its recent Global Terrorism report.
Tags: featured, global terrorism index, Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP)
May 16, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker(pseudonym) describes how military repression in Myanmar is strangling access to medical care during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
May 13, 2022
8 Minutes To ReadAn open letter by scholars and analysts of Myanmar, to the Institute of Economics and Peace requesting necessary changes to a recent Global Terrorism Index Report.
Tags: global terrorism index, Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), myanmar
May 11, 2022
10 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker shares the autobiography of a political activist who escaped to Thailand, and considers his current situation.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
May 6, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker reflects on the lives of Myanmar political activists, sheltering from the Tatmadaw as exiles in Thailand.
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April 29, 2022
7 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker reflects on the lives of Myanmar political activists, fleeing for their lives from the Tatmadaw.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
April 22, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadTo understand the generational pain and grief, Htar Nwe (pseudonym) writes about the process of finding herself through her own pain and grief after the February 1 coup.
Tags: myanmar coup, prison
April 18, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker describes an instance of the random dangers encountered in Myanmar due to military repression.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
April 15, 2022
8 Minutes To ReadChristopher J. Walker describes resistance to the military repression in Myanmar, in demonstrations and in education.
Tags: chronicle of a coup
April 8, 2022
6 Minutes To ReadA new special issue in Geopolitics (edited by Jasnea Sarma, Hilary Faxon and K.B. Roberts) highlights pre- and post-coup extractive economies and political geographies in Myanmar and beyond.
Tags: borders, colonialism, environment, geopolitics, People's Defence Force (PDF)
March 31, 2022
10 Minutes To ReadNgwe Min Tar Yar shares his knowledge of intercommunal support in Myanmar for people grappling with COVID-19 and the coup.
March 30, 2022