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    • NewsMyanmar junta leader Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing (front, second from right) visited the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Astana, Kazakhstan on September 28 (Photo: Junta Ministry of Information)
      David Scott MathiesonOctober 9, 2025

      The junta chief’s autocratic globetrotting and political survival

      Having withstood nearly five years of armed resistance from within, failed diplomacy from neighbours, and ineffectual pressure from the West, the leader of Myanmar’s military regime is increasingly courting support from some of the world’s most repressive states

    • NewsArakan Army troops in January 2024, two months into an offensive that has since seen the group take control of much of Rakhine State (Photo: Arakan Princess Media)
      David Scott MathiesonAugust 14, 2025

      Is the war in Myanmar approaching its ‘culminating point’?

      Nearly five years into a conflict being fought on multiple fronts, it is still far from clear who will prevail in the end

    • OpinionMyanmar junta soldiers in the custody of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force as prisoners of war near Loikaw, Karenni State in November 2023 (Photo: Min Htet San/EPA)
      David Scott MathiesonApril 14, 2025

      The laws of war and Myanmar’s conflicts 

      As breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL) multiply in Myanmar’s conflicts, past shortcomings in promoting restraint in war and respect for civilians’ rights among anti-junta groups point to a growing need for bottom-up, localised approaches

    • Opinion
      David Scott MathiesonJanuary 9, 2025

      The limits of the Myanmar military’s air power 

      The regime’s efforts to halt its many enemies’ advances with airstrikes are proving increasingly futile

    • Opinion
      David Scott MathiesonNovember 11, 2024

      The evolution of warfare in Myanmar

      Nearly four years of post-coup conflict have transformed the way Myanmar’s military and its many enemies wage war against each other

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