Capital: Nay Pyi Taw
President: Win Myint (2018 – Today)
Population: 52 million
Reports on Press freedom:
Forensics Reports
- [Jan 2017] Unrest in Myanmar
Media coverage
- [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