Capital: Nay Pyi Taw
President: Myint Swe (2021 – Today)
Population: 52 million
Reports on Press freedom:
Forensics Reports
- [May 27, 2022] Myanmar Junta keeps expanding the secret block list
- [May 4, 2021] Myanmar’s official social application OKPar – Flawed privacy by design?
- [Feb 7, 2021] The mystery behind Chinese messages showed on Myanmar devices
- [Mar 2021] Myanmar – Multi-stage malware attack targets elected lawmakers
- [Nov 2020] Tracing disinformation campaign in Myanmar
- [Sept 2020] My Ooredoo Myanmar. Insecure communications
- [Aug 2020] Internet blocking in Myanmar – Secret block list and no means to appeal
- [Jan 2017] Unrest in Myanmar
Press releases
- [May 5, 2021] Myanmar’s official social application OKPar – Flawed privacy by design?
- [Sept 21, 2020] My Ooredoo Myanmar mobile application fails to ensure integrity and confidentiality
- [Aug 9, 2020] Five months later, Myanmar still blocks 230 sites in secret
Media coverage
- [27 May 2022] AAPPB Twitter @Qur1um has deployed a block-resiliant Bifrost mirror of People’s Spring
- [Apr 2020] RohingyaKhobor Myanmar blocks more than a thousand website
- [11 Nov 2020] The Rise of Online Censorship and Surveillance in Myanmar: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study
- [11 Aug 2020] Terabitweb Blog Internet blocking in Myanmar – Secret block list and no means to appeal
- [11 Aug 2020] IT Security News Internet blocking in Myanmar – Secret block list and no means to appeal
- [10 Aug 2020] Security Affairs Internet blocking in Myanmar – Secret block list and no means to appeal
- [30 Jan 2017] The Irrawaddy, Govt Investigates U Ko Ni’s Assassination
- [29 Jan 2017] Democratic Voice of Burma, Prominent NLD law adviser, Muslim shot dead at Rangoon airport
- [10 Jan 2017] BBC News, Who will help Myanmar’s Rohingya?
- [21 Dec 2016] Human Rights Watch, Burma: Rohingya Recount Killings, Rape, and Arson
- [13 Dec 2016] The Independent, Burma’s Rohingya Muslims speak of massacres and rape as government denies genocide [VIDEO]
- [14 Nov 2016] The Guardian, Myanmar violence: dozens killed as army clashes with Rohingya in Rakhine state
- [7 Nov 2016] BBC News, Muslim civilians ‘killed by Burmese army’ [VIDEO]
- [10 Oct 2016] The Guardian, Myanmar says nine police killed by insurgents on Bangladesh border