The first to heed the call was the opposition National Unity Government, which unilaterally announced a two-week pause on attacks by its armed wing, the People’s Defense Force, on March 29.

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 ...

The resulting civil war, now into its fourth year, has seen 6,000-plus people killed, 29,000 arrested and more than 3.3 million displaced, according to estimates from the human rights group ...

The huge earthquake that rattled Myanmar on Friday caused widespread destruction and killed at least 1,700 people. But that figure could rise further if aid workers are able to reach the country's ...

At the time of independence, other than the Buddhist Bamar, who now constitute over 68 percent of the country’s 5.46 crore population, a few other ethnic communities began fighting for their own ...

But in the dense forests of the Irrawaddy River basin, Maung Saungkha leads around 1,000 fighters under the banner of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army (BPLA), armed with rocket-propelled ...

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.

Maung Saungkha, the leader of the Bamar People's Liberation Army, told Reuters news agency that his group is "not interested in this offer".

Maung Saungkha, the leader of the Bamar People's Liberation Army, a militia formed in the wake of the coup, told Reuters: "we are not interested in this offer." ...

Myanmar is locked in a civil war, with the junta fighting on multiple fronts against an armed resistance movement, the People's Defence Forces, which are loosely allied with several ethnic ...

Maung Saungkha, the leader of the Bamar People's Liberation Army, a militia formed in the wake of the coup, told Reuters: "we are not interested in this offer." DISCREDITED ELECTION ...