Category: Features

News Features on Burma & Burmese issues

Thai Ultra-Nationalists and Myanmar Nationals Living in Thailand

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 30 Scene*(MoeMaKa) January 31, 2026 Thai Ultra-Nationalists and Myanmar Nationals Living in Thailand In recent days, some individuals who describe themselves as migrant worker rights activists in Thailand have urged Myanmar nationals living and working…

Myanmar’s Sham Election and ASEAN’s Stance

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 29 Scene*(MoeMaKa) January 30, 2026 Myanmar’s Sham Election and ASEAN’s Stance In recent weeks, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Theresa Lazaro, whose country currently holds the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN—the Southeast Asian bloc made up of…

NUG and resistance groups preparing to form a new body called the FSC

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 28 Scene(MoeMaKa) January 29, 2026 NUG and resistance groups preparing to form a new body called the FSC Reports have emerged that the National Unity Government (NUG), the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), and other…

January 27 — The Myanmar people living amid increasingly frequent and brutal killings

Myanmar Spring Chronicles (MoeMaKa) January 27 —The Myanmar people living amid increasingly frequent and brutal killings Since the coup, crimes have risen to levels never seen before in many generations, and the brutality of those crimes has reached degrees that…

Education During the Revolutionary Period

Myanmar spring chronicles Education During the Revolutionary Period If one were asked to point out a controversial issue during the Spring Revolution—an issue that could harm mobilization efforts because it focuses too narrowly on a single political narrative, or one…

Final phase of the junta-run election concluded

Myanmar Spring Chronicle — January 25 Scene*(MoeMaKa) January 26, 2026 Final phase of the junta-run election concluded The third and final phase of the election organized by the Tatmadaw — the military that seized power in 2021 — concluded on…

Changing Military Situation in Myawaddy Township

Myanmar Spring Chronicles January 24 Changing Military Situation in Myawaddy Township Over the past year and a half, the situation in Myawaddy Township, Karen State, has gradually shifted from a period in which revolutionary forces were able to seize territory…

The Risk of Western Bloc Fragmentation and Its Impact on the Myanmar Cause

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 23 SceneJanuary 24, 2026 The Risk of Western Bloc Fragmentation and Its Impact on the Myanmar Cause Eighty years after World War II, we are now seeing signs and signals that could overturn the global…

KNLA Hands Over Suspect Who Shot at Thai Police to Thai Authorities

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 22 Scene*January 23, 2026 KNLA Hands Over Suspect Who Shot at Thai Police to Thai Authorities In recent days, a Myanmar national named Naing Lin Aung, who shot at Thai police and fled following an…

The Rohingya Genocide and Myanmar Politics

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 21 SceneJanuary 22, 2026 The Rohingya Genocide and Myanmar Politics Issues related to ethnicity, religion, and minority rights have never been simple matters in Myanmar politics. They are at once cultural issues and the products…

Myanmar nationals in Thailand facing growing troubles

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 20 Scene*January 21, 2026 Myanmar nationals in Thailand facing growing troubles Because of Myanmar’s economic crisis, the conscription law, and the risk of arrest and punishment for opposing the coup regime politically, the number of…

Nearly 80 detainees held as prisoners of war escape from Mae Sae (Karenni/Kayah State)

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scene of January 19January 20, 2026 Nearly 80 detainees held as prisoners of war escape from Mae Sae (Karenni/Kayah State) On the 18th of this month, an incident occurred in which prisoners of war held at…

Who will act to ease the suffering the people are enduring?

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 18 SceneJanuary 19, 2026 Who will act to ease the suffering the people are enduring? As the flames of civil war spread ever wider, those who suffer the most are the people who do not…

How will armed groups resolve friction among themselves?

  Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 17 SceneJanuary 18, 2026 How will armed groups resolve friction among themselves? Myanmar’s military claims it is achieving the outcomes it wants in the second phase of the election, and its media outlets are…

The Gradual Withdrawals from the NUCC and Myanmar’s Political Tradition

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – January 14 Snapshot
January 15, 2026The Gradual Withdrawals from the NUCC and Myanmar’s Political TraditionSince the early days following the 2021 military coup, a number of organizations have withdrawn from the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), the…