Britain says it stands with Myanmar’s youth – then bars them from safety
The UK has announced a pause on student visas that risks forcing some into fighting for a regime it opposes.
A Q&A with Pacifist Farooq on life in Malaysia as a Rohingya from Myanmar
In this Q&A, Pacifist Farooq, a Rohingya poet from Myanmar who now teaches in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, speaks to DVB about education, detention fears, and why Malaysia’s new refugee registration system leaves his community both hopeful and uncertain. by Seán Donal Barry
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Myanmar refugees in Malaysia face new registration regime
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia face growing uncertainty as a UN refugee agency documentation process is challenged by a new Malaysian initiative during ongoing refugee deportations.
Myanmar refugees in Malaysia protest against regime elections
Myanmar’s refugee community in Malaysia held a protest at a community centre in Kuala Lumpur’s Pudu district on Friday against the military regime elections set to begin Sunday.“Our assembly may be stopped, but our voice shall not be silenced,” said organiser James Bawi Thang Bik, the chairperson of the Alliance of Chin Refugees (ACR).The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) states that 190,000 refugees and asylum-seekers from Myanmar – including a signifi...
The Lintners’ Young Tigers tells the story of Myanmar’s Shan rebellion
Burmese nationalism, Shan resistance, opium cultivation, foreign interference; context is king in the Lintners’ new book. It’s an ambitious blend of storytelling approaches, thick with complex and multi-layered narratives, and foregrounded by the stories of two characters symbolic of a tension between nihilism and ideas.
Malaysia’s Karen community marks New Year in Kuala Lumpur
Members of the Karen community from Myanmar living in Malaysia gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to mark Karen New Year at an event organized by the Malaysian Karen Organisation (MKO).Organizers told DVB that the event was intended to “highlight the richness, uniqueness, and unity of the Karen community.”
Karen authorities launch ambitious 10-year climate action plan
Senior officials from the Karen National Union (KNU) and affiliated civil society organisations formally launched what has been described as the region’s first indigenous-led climate plan on Wednesday.
Thabyay: Creative resistance in Myanmar documentary film (review)
“Why can’t we build up a nation with everyone all together?” asks Myanmar community organiser and human rights activist Thet Swe Win, one of four protagonists in Jeanne Hallacy’s new film Thabyay. It’s a deceptively simple question, but it encapsulates what the film sets out to do. Myanmar is a place where storytellers risk getting swallowed up by factional detail, and outsiders are met with a thicket of acronyms, alliances, betrayals, counter-alliances, and historical...
Indigenous-led climate action plan from resistance-held Karen State
Civil society organizations affiliated with the Karen National Union (KNU) are preparing to launch what experts have said could be the world’s first indigenous-led climate commitment before the end of the year – a practical attempt to fill a governance vacuum left by Myanmar’s fractured state, and a bid for international legitimacy.
Eradication: A poet at the heart of the Rohingya genocide (review)
From exiled Rohingya poet Mayyu Ali comes a story about belonging, confusion, and loss, told with purpose and poetic restraint, in order to set the record straight.A book that almost never saw the light of day, written while the author was in exile after finding himself at odds with a Rohingya militant group, has now appeared in English. From the opening dedication, Eradication shows that it is not a personal lament. Mayyu Ali tells a deeply personal story...
A dispatch from Mandalay - six months on from historic earthquake
Myanmar’s strongest earthquake in a century struggled to spur international support in any meaningful way. Nor did it inspire any let up in the military’s violence – and in the second largest city of Mandalay, oppression is only intensifying.
A Q&A with David Eubank from the Free Burma Rangers
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a humanitarian group that has operated for over two decades in Myanmar’s ethnic homelands, providing front-line medical care, evacuation support, and more.
In this Q&A, FBR founder and director David Eubank discusses the shift in needs since the 2021 military coup, the response to the March 28th earthquake, and how shrinking international aid is impacting the 3.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Myanmar.DVB.
In this Q&A, FBR founder and director David Eubank discusses the shift in needs since the 2021 military coup, the response to the March 28th earthquake, and how shrinking international aid is impacting the 3.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Myanmar.DVB.