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Myanmar junta releases almost 4,900 prisoners in traditional near year amnesty

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government.

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Myanmar frees almost 5,000 prisoners in new year’s amnesty but no sign of Aung San Suu Kyi

Thousands released in holiday amnesty as Myanmar reels from civil war and a devastating earthquake

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UN calls on Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and respect earthquake recovery ceasefire

Military criticised by UN for launching more than 120 attacks since announcing truce and blocking aid

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UN special envoy Julie Bishop makes first trip to war-torn Myanmar after big quake

The U.N.’s special envoy for Myanmar, Australia’s Julie Bishop, has met with the military-run nation’s foreign minister during her first visit since her appointment last year, Her mission comes in the wake of the massive earthquake that killed more than 3,600 people, and in the larger context of the country’s…

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Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing commits to hold elections by year's end

The 2021 military coup which ousted democratically-elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been met with widespread opposition, sparking widespread protests and triggering an armed resistance which has plunged much of the country into conflict.

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Myanmar military chief reaffirms election plans and calls for opposition to join politics

Myanmar’s military chief used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day celebration to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by year’s end and call on opposition groups fighting the army to join in party politics

The Independent UK

The Rohingya were driven from Myanmar. Now they’re taking up arms to fight back

SPECIAL REPORT: In the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, whispers of resistance grow louder as young men feel compelled to take up arms and return to fight in Myanmar. Shweta Sharma speaks to these rebels and meets their secretive leader in a hideout in one of the Cox’s…

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Myanmar’s junta chief announces election by January 2026

The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to maintain control, with armed resistance from pro-democracy fighters and ethnic militias escalating across the country

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How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’

ON THE GROUND: Rohingya Muslims tell of their changing view of Aung San Suu Kyi, seeing her as one of their own – a victim of the military – as she languishes in solitary confinement. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh

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Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar's ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders

A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful as the property in a country embroiled in a civil war failed to attract any bidders

The Independent UK

Myanmar Junta Bid To Sell Suu Kyi Mansion Flops For Third Time

Myanmar's junta failed in its attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader's home -- the third time the sale has flopped.

International Business Times

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son pleads with Myanmar's military dictatorship to free his mother

Kim Aris calls for release of ‘last flame of hope for democracy’ in the country

The Independent UK

David Lammy calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi

The Foreign Secretary said Britain had ‘not forgotten’ those ‘arbitrarily detained’ by the military regime which leads Myanmar.

Evening Standard

Foreign secretary David Lammy makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Exclusive: Cabinet minister demands she be freed after Independent TV documentary examines her rise and fall – and the plight of the people of Myanmar

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As the Myanmar junta’s hold on power weakens, could the devastating war be nearing a conclusion?

It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 2021, starting a civil war that has devastated the country.

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The Independent’s documentary hailed for shining light on ‘reprehensible’ jailing of Aung San Suu Kyi

Bianca Jagger, ‘Wild Swans’ author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar leader following the screening of a new Independent TV film on her life

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Japanese filmmaker whose arrest caused international outcry backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship

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Foreigners among 6,000 prisoners to be freed under Myanmar junta’s annual amnesty

There was no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader, was among those pardoned

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Head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college backs calls for her release

Exclusive: Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College, has written to the government of Myanmar

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Ex-minister who witnessed ‘horrible’ Myanmar military violence joins calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release

Paul Scully, whose family left Myanmar for Britain, saw ‘horrible things’ as Rohingya Muslim minority suffered violence and persecution

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Myanmar’s government-in-exile says Suu Kyi’s detention a stark reminder of brutal junta rule: ‘Inhumane’

Exclusive: National Unity Government hopes Independent TV documentary on ousted leader ‘will wake up international community’ to repression in the country

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Rats and ‘horrible black tarantulas’: Sean Turnell’s 20 months in prison in Myanmar

The Australian economist and former adviser to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said his time in prison made him reassess everything

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris begs for her release from Myanmar prison

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release amid fears for her health after four years in a brutal military prison

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‘Myanmar is under the yoke of a pariah regime’: Calls grow in UK for release of Aung San Suu Kyi from prison

Two former UK foreign ministers join call for action after William Hague told Independent documentary it is possible to be critical of former Myanmar leader ‘but also say we should be campaigning for her release’

The Independent UK

Aung San Suu Kyi: Who is to blame for Myanmar’s collapse into military tyranny?

Aung San Suun Kyi’s imprisonment in a jungle jail marks the rise and fall of one of the world’s most iconic women as her country Myanmar is forgotten by the world, writes Peter Popham

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