On Myanmar’s Front Line: Armed resistance gathers pace

 

Behind the scenes as pro-democracy rebels in Myanmar fight against government repression.

In the aftermath of Myanmar’s military coup in February 2021, and the brutal suppression of the protests that followed, thousands of pro-democracy activists decided to fight back against the generals.

The Battle for Belarus

 

After a brutal state crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Belarus, neighbouring countries are now being drawn in.

Thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded in freezing winter conditions on the border between Belarus and the European Union.

It is a developing humanitarian emergency that neighbouring countries say has been deliberately engineered by Belarus’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, in response to EU sanctions.

But to many of his battle-weary political opponents, whether at home or in exile, the president’s latest departure from international norms is just another example of his cavalier attitude to human rights.