Ye Myo Hein

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Myanmar’s Escalating Crisis: A Year in Review and the Road Ahead

Jan 15, 2025 | usip.org | Ye Myo Hein

KEY TAKEAWAYS After major military losses in 2024, this year augurs more of the same and consolidation of resistance control. Potential junta elections are likely to propel conflict and anti-Chinese sentiment, not stability. The U.S. and international community should engage more seriously with the resistance. KEY TAKEAWAYS After major military losses in 2024, this year augurs more of the same and consolidation of resistance control.
Guest Column | A Rigged Game: The Regime's Manipulative Call for Participation in Elections

Oct 4, 2024 | irrawaddy.com | Ye Myo Hein

On September 26, Myanmar’s military council issued a statement urging resistance forces to lay down their arms and participate in regime-organized elections. Titled “Offer to Resolve Political Issues by Political Means”, this statement sparked confusion, with some, including reputable international media, mistakenly interpreting it as an “appeal for talks on a political solution to the armed conflict”.
Myanmar’s Resistance Is Making Major Advances

Aug 14, 2024 | usip.org | Ye Myo Hein |In Myanmar

KEY TAKEAWAYS The battle of Lashio has had far-reaching effects on the trajectory of Myanmar's conflict. With bolstered confidence, the resistance is now preparing to move into central Myanmar. Trendlines are consistently favoring the resistance and the junta is weaker than ever. KEY TAKEAWAYS The battle of Lashio has had far-reaching effects on the trajectory of Myanmar's conflict. With bolstered confidence, the resistance is now preparing to move into central Myanmar.
Nine Things to Know About Myanmar’s Conflict Three Years On

Apr 30, 2024 | usip.org | Ye Myo Hein

On March 28, 2021, barely two months after the February 1 coup in Myanmar, a minor skirmish erupted at the Tarhan protest in Kalay township in central Sagaing region as demonstrators took up makeshift weapons to defend themselves against ruthless assaults by the junta’s security forces. This was the first recorded instance of civilian armed resistance to the military’s violent crackdown on peaceful protesters since the February 1 coup d’état.
12/26/23 National Security News and Commentary

Dec 26, 2023 | myemail.constantcontact.com | Warren Strobel |Ye Myo Hein |Lucas Myers |Jacquelyn Schneider

Quote of the Day:"Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to0day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future. "- Sir Basil H. Liddell-Hart"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing; to contemplate the beautiful thing, that is enough for one man's life."-T.S. ELiot"You need power, only when you want to do something harmful, others, love is all you need to get everything done."- Charlie Chaplin1. American Spies Confront a New, Formidable China2.
Guest Column | The Existential Threat Facing Myanmar’s Junta

Dec 5, 2023 | irrawaddy.com | Ye Myo Hein

With the coordinated strategy of the resistance forces spreading across the country, the degree of joint planning that preceded the launch of Operation 1027 has become visible in both the comprehensive nature of the nationwide strategy and the diversity of the opposition armed forces deployed in the various theaters of attack, as was described in the first part of this two-part series.
The Existential Threat Facing Myanmar’s Junta

Dec 5, 2023 | asiatoday.co | Ye Myo Hein

With the coordinated technique of the resistance forces spreading throughout the nation, the diploma of joint planning that preceded the launch of Operation 1027 has change into seen in each the great nature of the nationwide technique and the range of the opposition armed forces deployed within the numerous theaters of assault, as was described in the primary half of this two-part sequence.
Coordinated strikes mark new chapter in Myanmar’s anti-coup struggle

Dec 4, 2023 | dhakatribune.com | Ye Myo Hein

In the pre-dawn silence on October 27, a hushed group of armed men exploited the shroud of darkness to steal toward the Chin Shwe Haw Bridge in northern Shan State on Myanmar’s border with China. At the military outpost near the bridge a security guard nodded drowsily, unaware of the looming danger.
Guest Column | Charting the Shifting Power Balance on Myanmar’s Battlefields

Dec 2, 2023 | irrawaddy.com | Ye Myo Hein

In the pre-dawn silence on Oct. 27, a hushed group of armed men exploited the shroud of darkness to steal toward the Chin Shwe Haw Bridge in northern Shan State on Myanmar’s border with China. At the military outpost near the bridge a security guard nodded drowsily, unaware of the looming danger.
Don’t Give a Wild Beast a Taste of Blood

Oct 20, 2023 | asiatoday.co | Ye Myo Hein

On Oct. 8, a devastating late-night airstrike by the Myanmar navy on Laiza, a Kachin city bordering China beneath the administration of the Kachin Independence Group (KIO), tore by a camp for internally displaced folks, killing quite a few civilians together with 12 kids. This appalling incident provides to the litany of heinous crimes the Myanmar navy has dedicated in opposition to civilians all through its sordid historical past.