Also this week, the Air Force chief urged escalation of a campaign that has killed over 1,000 civilians, and the ...

Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military, the Tatmadaw, staged a coup and took over Myanmar. What followed can only be described as ...

Myanmar's military - the Tatmadaw - began its involvement in business after the socialist coup of Ne Win in 1962. For years, military battalions were required to be self-sufficient and encouraged ...

Myanmar's armed forces (Tatmadaw) have reacted rapidly and in strength to an advance by ethnic insurgent forces into the Ayeyarwady delta region of the ...

Tatmadaw translates literally as “armed forces,” and is made up of the Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay), and Navy (Tatmadaw Ye). In English we have used the term “Burma army ...

After a coup in 1962, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military, has often held control, engaging in conflicts with ethnic minority groups fighting for self-determination. This outburst of violence by the ...

When the Tatmadaw entered my village they killed men and beat women when they caught them. 1 Burmese soldiers came into Tho Mer Kee village and burnt down all the houses. They killed all our pigs ...

But the military, or Tatmadaw, insists that security forces have acted with restraint against "riotous protesters" who they accuse of attacking police. In a new report, human rights group Amnesty ...

She said the situation is reminiscent of the pattern of operations that the military, known as the Tatmadaw, used against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state in 1997. The Rohingya were ...

The past year has seen a dramatic shift in momentum in Myanmar's internal conflict, which emerged from the coup launched by the country's ruling military junta in February 2021. Three ethnic ...