News About Myanmar

Mizzima Myanmar suffered the steepest deterioration in the conditions that sustain peace of any country in the world between 2020 and 2024, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Positive Peace Report released in September 2026. The country’s score on the Positive Peace Index, which measures governance, information, human capital and other structural foundations of peace across 163 countries, worsened by 10.5 per cent over the four-year period, the report found.

Mizzima More than 160 civil society organizations from Malaysia and across the region issued a joint statement on 23 September urging Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to abandon plans to work with Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on the return of some 200,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in Malaysia, warning that any such deportation would make Malaysia complicit in an ongoing genocide. The statement, signed by 166 organizations and more than 140 individuals, was re

TIME editor-at-large Charlie Campbell (left) and Min Aung Hlaing during the interview in Naypyitaw on August 28, 2026. / GNLM The Myanmar regime has denounced TIME’s article based on Min Aung Hlaing’s first interview with a Western media outlet since the 2021 coup, blacklisting the reporter, demanding that the story be taken down and banning the magazine in Myanmar. The Irrawaddy has learned that the regime has blacklisted TIME editor-at-large Charlie Campbell following his i

Self-installed President Min Aung Hlaing told TIME magazine that whether Myanmar’s detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi deserves to be freed ‘depends on her.’ Myanmar regime chief Min Aung Hlaing said he has been “extremely lenient” toward detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he has detained since ousting her from power over five years ago, and that whether she receives an amnesty “depends on her.” He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with US magazine

Protesters hold placards depicting Min Aung Hlaing during an anti-coup demonstration in Yangon in February 2021 (EPA) Myanmar’s coup leader and self-appointed president Min Aung Hlaing said in an interview published today he has been “extremely lenient” on Aung San Suu Kyi, who he ousted and jailed in 2021. Min Aung Hlaing ordered the military putsch that toppled the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s democratic government, claiming she won power through massive voter fraud in elec

Time Magazine editor-at-large Charlie Campbell interviews Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing at the President’s Office in Naypyidaw on Aug. 28, 2026. (Credit: Regime) The regime’s Information Team in Naypyidaw issued a press statement strongly condemning Time Magazine and its Singapore-based editor, Charlie Campbell, over an exclusive interview with regime leader Min Aung Hlaing. The statement accuses the publication of violating media ethics and publishing “unfounded comm