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Self-serving accounts by insiders are short on accuracy but offer some insight into the military’s blinkered view of its role in politics and national security.

Both Russia and Ukraine are major arms suppliers to the military, but now the junta will have to look elsewhere for weapons.

YANGON/TAIPEI -- The arrest and detention of Khin Shwe, a longtime Myanmar tycoon, by the military regime last month hints at an irreconcilable s

Min Aung Hlaing began exploiting his power even as a junior officer so no one should be surprised by his behavior as a military dictator, argues Paw Htun.  

U Aung Ko, the NLD’s minister for religious affairs, was jailed for 12 years; he is seen as close to the country’s detained elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The military regime fails to understand that the country has changed radically since 2010.

The military regime fails to understand that the country has changed radically since 2010.

Less than a month after the NLD’s 2015 general election victory, Myanmar’s new leader met Senior General Than Shwe, the man who ordered her kept under house arrest.