Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military, the Tatmadaw, staged a coup and took over Myanmar. What followed can only be described as ...

For thousands of guerilla fighters, the dream of a free Myanmar still burns bright – even after four years of ruinous civil ...

Tatmadaw translates literally as “armed forces,” and is made up of the Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay), and Navy (Tatmadaw Ye). In English we have used the term “Burma army ...

Myanmar completed four years of military rule. On this day in 2021 General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the National League for ...

Five years after the coup and a protracted civil war, the junta and pro-democracy rebels have failed to consolidate power ...

Shot and exiled from his homeland by Myanmar’s military, Faruk Arian was tired of feeling powerless – until he turned his ...

Myanmar's armed forces (Tatmadaw) have reacted rapidly and in strength to an advance by ethnic insurgent forces into the Ayeyarwady delta region of the national heartland, which threatens the city ...

The post-coup resistance movement has its sights set on toppling the Tatmadaw once and for all – including by weakening the military from within. The claim comes amid an intensifying armed ...

Many Rohingya youths are becoming victims of exploitation and despair because of the unavailability of options to study and work and make a decent living A possible retaliation by Myanmar forces ...

When the Tatmadaw entered my village they killed men and beat women when they caught them. 1 Burmese soldiers came into Tho Mer Kee village and burnt down all the houses. They killed all our pigs ...

She said the situation is reminiscent of the pattern of operations that the military, known as the Tatmadaw, used against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state in 1997. The Rohingya were ...

The past year has seen a dramatic shift in momentum in Myanmar's internal conflict, which emerged from the coup launched by the country's ruling military junta in February 2021. Three ethnic ...