For the first time since anyone can remember, members of Myanmar’s majority Bamar people are seeking long-term solidarity with the country’s ethnic minorities.

Bamar People's Liberation Army/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab. The BPLA works closely with the Karen National Union (KNU), on whose territory it is based, ...

For them, being Bamar, being Buddhist, and being part of the army are inseparable. They don’t like Bamar people. It’s as if the anti–Buddhist nationalists have become the anti-Bamar people.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - While data is not yet in for 2024, the rate of Bowling Green residents born outside of the United States jumped from 13.1% in 2022 to 13.6% in 2023. With this and the ...

Members of the People's Defence Forces (PDF) who became guerrilla fighters after being protesters are seen on the front line in Kawkareik, Myanmar December 19, 2021. Picture taken December 19, 2021.

One of the better-armed groups, the Bamar People's Liberation Army, or BPLA, has recently returned to Anyar after training in Kayin and Shan.

“Bamar people think they own the country,” he said. But people like Nwe Nwe Wyin, the former student from Mandalay, made him think things could be changing, he added. Advertisement.

The People’s Defence Force Dawei District, based in Myanmar’s southernmost Tanintharyi region, is one of many resistance forces operating under the command of the National Unity Government, a ...

“There’s no point in talking about peace with someone like Hitler,” said Ko Saung Kha, commander of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army. A correction was made on Sept. 27, 2024 ...

In 2008, a week after the deadly cyclone Nargis killed more than 100,000 people in Myanmar, the military proceeded to hold a constitutional referendum that would guarantee the military’s control ...

Poet turned militia leader Maung Saungkha, one of the most prominent figures fighting for democracy in Myanmar, says his armed group plans to start carving out territory in the country's ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The first to heed the call was the opposition National Unity Government, which ...