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Reporting Myanmar

For this special series, the Guardian’s Rights and freedom project has partnered with a diverse group of journalists from Myanmar, many working in secret, to bring their reporting on life under military rule to a global audience

22 March 2022

  • Soldiers stand next to military vehicles in Yangon, Myanmar.

    Hundreds of children detained by the Myanmar military, minister says

    Whereabouts of children taken by the military since the 2021 coup are mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe

8 March 2022

  • Armed anti-riot police stand guard as demonstrators flash the three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, during a protest against the military, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar

    After a year of reporting on Myanmar’s military coup, I knew my luck would eventually run out

    Thompson Chau
    As one of the last western media journalists covering Myanmar I knew danger lurked – and there would be no James Bond to get me out

23 February 2022

  • A young woman sits in an improvised tent writing in an exercise book

    ‘Is the world listening?’: the poets challenging Myanmar’s military

    Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and beyond are using poetry to come to terms with atrocities – and as a form of resistance

10 February 2022

  • Kyi weeps after discovering the body of her 28-year-old son, Chan Tar, following his arrest by Myanmar junta soldiers.

    Myanmar watches a mother’s grief as junta soldiers claim another victim

    Kyi says she begged soldiers to release her son, but they refused. Footage of her mourning beside his body has been viewed widely, just one of many similar stories

9 February 2022

  • A young man in army fatgues looks at the camera from a boat

    Ready for war: my journey from peaceful poet to revolutionary soldier

    Formerly an anti-war poet, Maung Saungkha has endured a harsh training regime to prepare for armed struggle against the military junta

8 February 2022

  • Hip-hop dancers protest in Yangon, February 2021.

    Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war

    With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one another

6 February 2022

  • Five young men run with a wounded protester as they seek first aid during a protest against the military coup.

    Revolutionary roads: how the army tried to crush Yangon’s most anti-coup district

    The Hlaing Thayar district is at the centre of Myanmar’s protests, but brutal crackdowns and the collapse of the local garment industry have taken their toll

4 February 2022

  • A cartoon of a girl holding a gun

    ‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon

  • Young men with rifles jump out of a pick-up truck at a clearing in the jungle

    Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’

3 February 2022

  • FILE PHOTO: Protest against the military coup, in Yangon<br>FILE PHOTO: A soldier looks at a banner attached to a military vehicle outside Myanmar's Central Bank during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

    Myanmar’s UN envoy under fire for proposing ‘power share’ with military

  • Children attend a class in a temporary shelter at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township.

    ‘I can’t go home’: families hide in Myanmar’s forests as fighting rages

2 February 2022

  • The 74 Media photographers covering the protests in Myitkyina last February.

    ‘We’ll keep reporting, whatever the risk from the junta,’ say Myanmar’s journalists

    To avoid arrest, the staff of the 74 Media left their home city, only to face shellfire in their border refuge. The editor describes the risks faced by his media outlet

1 February 2022

  • A teacher wearing a mask makes a three-fingers salute.

    Teachers on the run: striking public sector workers hunted by Myanmar’s military

  • A demonstration against the Myanmar military coup in Mandalay on 18 February 2021

    Myanmar’s coup: a year under military rule in numbers

  • Empty streets in Yangon.

    Silent strike empties streets in Myanmar on anniversary of coup

  • A water cannon is fired at protesters in Mandalay

    I photographed Myanmar’s protesters one day – and their funerals the next

31 January 2022

  • Myanmar’s military has threatened to charge people with sedition and terrorism if they participate in action on 1 February.

    Myanmar’s junta struggles to prevent protests planned for coup anniversary

    Junta warns public not to take part in planned ‘silent strike’ and arrests business owners who vowed to close on 1 February
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