Political Organizations and Ethnic Armies in Myanmar Civil War All Burma Student Democratic Front (ABSDF): Operates along the Myanmar–Thailand border, India–Myanmar border, and China–Myanmar border. Joined the CRPH/NUG following the 2021 Myanmar coup. Arakan Army (AA): Active in Chin State, ...
For decades, Dr Cynthia Maung, founder of the clinic in Thailand, has seen the graphic side effects of the world's longest-running civil war, a brutal clash betweenMyanmar's military and a mix of pro-democracy groups and local ethnic rebel armies. In recent weeks though, she ...
Myanmar’s situation is complex: since February 2021, there is a multi-party civil war between the military coup government, the NUG (National Unity Government; successor of the Bamar-majority civil government) and its People’s defense forces, and over 30 different ethnic armed organisations (EA...
Kuomintang troops first crossed the border in 1950 from Yunnan Province after they were defeated by the Chinese Communist Party in the civil war. RelatedPosts Myanmar Junta Troops Seize Sagaing Villagers as Human Shields October 10, 2024
We get the latest from Myanmar as the military junta extends the nation’s state of emergency by a further six months. Then: Hannah Lucinda Smith updates us…
and assumed her role as the head of a well-armed militia which would be used by the forces of Nationalist China and the CIA as they sought to invade southern China in a so-called secret war which took place between 1950 and 1953. The combined forces were easily beaten back by China’s...
Myanmar’s economy in crisis as civil strife disrupts trade and livelihoods Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. June 12 Myanmar’s army is reportedly emptying villages in a western st...
Various nationalities in the border areas fought with the British during the war against the majority Bamar (who initially fought with the Japanese) and this, together with the nationalities’ marginalisation from central power, has resulted in the longest-running civil war in the world. To this...
The deeply unpopular regime has since been busy fighting a vicious civil war, struggling to govern growing swathes of its territory or deliver on Beijing’s economic and strategic interests there, including an ambitious infrastructure corridor aimed at connecting China’s landlocked southwest with the...
January 24 2024 Myanmar military losing grip near Chinese border Fighting reportedly persists despite Beijing-brokered truce with armed rebel groups Save January 12 2024 China brokers ceasefire between Myanmar military and rebel alliance Beijing’s mediation follows growing concern about civil war near...