The Foreign Secretary said Britain had ‘not forgotten’ those ‘arbitrarily detained’ by the military regime which leads Myanmar.

Four years after a coup, Myanmar remains in a civil war, driving thousands to seek refuge in Thailand, where they struggle to survive with little hope of returning home Fleeing the economic ruin that followed the coup,

Foreign secretary David Lammy makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi - Exclusive: Cabinet minister demands she be freed after Independent TV documentary examines her rise and fall – an

Myanmar is in freefall. Since the February 2021 military coup, the nation has plunged into unrelenting chaos with widespread atrocities, thousands of

China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast

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The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military regime in Myanmar. The film looks at the life of the 79-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who has become a deeply divisive and ...

Pro-democracy crusader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) recently completed a total of 19 years of detention under the military rulers .

As Myanmar’s military junta has announced the intention to hold elections this year, China has supported the move whereas the West and much of the international community called for deferment until af

It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 2021, starting a civil war that has devastated

open image in gallery Bianca Jagger listens to Helena Kennedy at the screening of The Independent’s documentary ‘Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi’ (Al Brown) Ms Chang ...

Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.