To mark detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th birthday, The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the key events in her life.

Kyaw Swar Lin, a protege of the junta boss but untested in combat, takes operational command as the army faces a new wave of battlefield challenges on multiple fronts.

Zaw Win Shein has prospered under military rule, democracy, and back again – now ranking as one of the junta’s richest and most favored business sons.

In this personal account first published in 2005, The Irrawaddy English Edition Editor-in-Chief Kyaw Zwa Moe recounts his experience ... symbol of the National League for Democracy, led by Aung San ...

The cinema was built in 1973-74 and is located in the centre of Sagaing. U Aung Kyaw Myint, an engineer supervising the construction of the Zeya Thiri Cinema, said that there used to be a cinema ...

It also disrupted electricity supplies to factories producing munitions for the military, said Tin Lin Aung, a former major ... in coming months,” said Ko Ko Gyi of the Sagaing PDF’s Battalion ...

By KYAW ZWA MOE 19 July 2021Courtesy The Irrawaddy ... Three of them used tommy guns. The youngest assassin, Yan Gyi Aung, used a Sten gun. After the assassination, the weapons were taken to India and ...

“The smell of decomposing bodies is getting stronger, so I don’t think there will be any survivors,” said Kyaw Gyi, a volunteer ... on Monday.Credit...Sai Aung Main/Agence France-Presse ...

In addition, the following political party representatives were present: Chairman of People’s Party U Ko Ko Gyi, Chairman of Arakan Front Party Dr Aye Maung, Vice-Chairman of the National Democratic ...

Kyaw Zaw Khing, political commissar of Kyauktaw ... U San Shwe Maung and U Maung Mya Aung, were found buried near the Rohingya-inhabited village of Gone Nar in Buthidaung. The duo had reportedly ...