Day: November 14, 2024

By Maung Zarni | Published by Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) on November 10, 2024 Almost four years after anti-coup protests engulfed my birthplace, Myanmar under Min Aung Hlaing’s military junta looks more and more like Assad’s Syria in the wake of the United States’ failed color revolution. The escalating conflict in the ASEAN country has morphed into a brutal civil war. Over the past year, anti-junta ethic armies have made significant military gains against the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s China- and Russia-backed military junta that seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021. Myanmar’s armed conflicts are, tragically, no longer

By Maung Zarni | Published by The Wire on November 9, 2024 My strife-torn country – in India’s backyard – looks more and more like Assad’s Syria.  London: Almost four years after anti-coup protests engulfed my birthplace, Myanmar under Min Aung Hlaing’s junta looks more and more like Bashar al-Assad’s Syria in the wake of America’s failed ‘colour revolution.’ The ongoing and escalating conflict in the largest mainland country in Southeast Asia, has morphed into a brutal civil war.   Over the past year, the anti-junta ethic armies of The Three Brotherhood Alliance (the Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and

By Maung Zarni | Published by The Jakarta Post on November 6, 2024 Over the past three years since the Myanmar military seized power, the armed conflicts have morphed into a civil war, with anti-junta groups fighting for their own interests without a single, unifying vision, and the Rohingya people still caught in a decades-long genocide. LONDON – Almost four years after anti-coup protests engulfed my birthplace, Myanmar under Min Aung Hlaing’s military junta looks more and more like Assad’s Syria in the wake oft he United States’ failed color revolution. The escalating conflict in the ASEAN country has morphed into