The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

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A year after the coup, renewed calls for action against a military accused of ‘heinous’ attacks on civilians.

Today is the first anniversary of the Feb 1 seizure of power by the Tatmadaw in Nay Pyi Taw. Over the past 12 months, the overall situation in Myanmar has gone into a downward spiral and all the progress and positive developments made since 2011, when the country proudly opened…

In the year since Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s prospects have deteriorated sharply, with untold misery for millions: deaths, arrests, detention, sickness, displacement, poverty and trauma.

Myanmar on Tuesday marked one year since the military ousted an elected government and took power in a country that has been ruled by generals for five of the past six decades.

These journalists faced deportation and arrest in Myanmar, but Australia took them in. Now they reveal their daring escape from the military coup.

Myanmar's military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1 last year, citing unaddressed fraud in an election three months earlier won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

Prisons in Myanmar have been ordered to clean the gallows, in an apparent preparation for the execution of 101 political prisoners who have been sentenced to death since the military coup one year ago. These would be the first official executions in the country in over three decades.

A year after a military coup, Myanmar remains mired in conflict. The country’s military, the Tatmadaw, has failed to convince most of Myanmar’s 55 million people of the legitimacy of its rule. Anti-coup resistance continues to be widespread nationwide.