Welcome to the Use Your Freedom Media Archive
This page is a curated collection of articles, commentary, and digital media produced by Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow as part of the Use Your Freedom campaign’s ongoing commitment to digital activism. This archive brings together powerful journalism, open letters, interviews, and analytical pieces published in major outlets that challenge prevailing narratives and spotlight the struggle for democracy and human rights in Myanmar
Democratic Voice of Burma, December 2, 2025
Is Aung San Suu Kyi Still Alive? The world can no longer pretend not to know
Asia Times, January 31, 2025
Mizzima, December 23, 2025
The Myanmar Junta’s Greatest Fear is Not Aung San Suu Kyi Alive - is is Her Dead
Democratic Voice of Burma, March 16, 2025
In the shadow of empire: Myanmar’s battle for narrative control
Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow, February 5, 2025
Open Letter to World Leaders: Defend Myanmar’s Democracy, or Surrender SE Asia to Tyranny
Alan Clements, November 6, 2025
Fergus Harlow, November 2024
Fergus Harlow interviews Kim Aris, second son of Aung San Suu Kyi
Alan Clements, Mizzima, Jan 19, 2026
Lessons from The Idiot: Dostoevsky, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Education of State Terror
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi … is imprisoned because she embodies a form of authority the junta cannot counterfeit: legitimacy rooted in moral continuity rather than force.”
Alan Clements, Substack, Jan 17, 2026
An excerpt from “Unsilenced: Aung San Suu Kyi - Conversations from a Myanmar Prison”, a work of fiction by Alan Clements
Fergus Harlow, DVB, Jan 16, 2026
As ICJ hearings on Myanmar begin, it must avoid repeating fatal errors
“The ICJ must avoid repeating the central failure of the United Nations’ 2018 Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, which floundered … because the investigation was structurally incomplete.”
Alan Clements, DVB, Jan 4, 2026
Myanmar’s ‘crisis of conscience’ has nothing to do with politics
“Myanmar is not collapsing because of ideology, ethnicity, or geopolitics. It is collapsing because conscience has been systematically severed from power.“
Alan Clements, DVB TV, Dec 21, 2025
DVB TV: Feature length video interview with Alan Clements
“In this extended interview with DVB journalist Yamin Myatt Aye (Dec. 21, 2025), I speak to the escalating global alarm surrounding the enforced disappearance of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi”
Alan Clements, DVB, Jan 6, 2026
A moment of reckoning for Venezuela but how about for Myanmar?
The same week Maduro faced justice, Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado was celebrated internationally for her nonviolent resistance. At that same moment … remains buried alive in prison.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war waged with words — And the woman who refused to fight it
An examination of how language is weaponized under dictatorship and how Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral restraint stands in quiet defiance of propaganda, erasure, and coercion.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war waged with words
On the moral violence of language and the global complicity sustained through euphemism, denial, and strategic silence.
Alan Clements, December 10, 2025
The silent war we wage with words - and the woman who refused to fight it
She refused to vilify the generals who held her captive. She critiqued systems, not souls; policies, not persons; behavior, not humanity.
Alan Clements, November 26, 2025
US Labels Myanmar’s Hell ‘safe’ in Shameful Nod to Junta
US Department of Homeland Security parrots rights-abusing junta’s lines to justify forced returns of Myanmar nationals
Alan Clements, November 5, 2025
The Phantasmagoria of Power: Unmasking Myanmar’s Junta and their Sham December Elections
This isn’t an election; it’s a scripted ritual of self-coronation, where ballots are props, voters are extras, and legitimacy is as illusory as a mirage in the Irrawaddy Delta.
Alan Clements, October 25, 2025
Open Letter to U.S. President Donald Trump
Use your voice to demand the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, and all political prisoners.
Alan Clements, December 2, 2025
Is Aung San Suu Kyi Still Alive? The world can no longer pretend not to know
There are moments when the fate of a single human being reveals the moral condition of the world.
Alan Clements, September 23, 2025
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Gravell Ill. The World Must Act Now
Recently Kim Aris, the youngest son of 80-year-old Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, told The Independent (UK) that his mother – Burma’s imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate – is gravely ill with worsening heart disease.
Alan Clements, September 8, 2025
Aung San Suu Kyi is Gravelly Ill - and the World Must Act
Global leaders must break their silence and raise their voices to demand ailing Suu Kyi’s immediate release from prison.
Alan Clements, November 6, 2025
A reminder of Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral courage
At the request of Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, Fergus Harlow’s Letter to Religions for Peace Italy and its accompanying fifteen-minute video were created as acts of service and solidarity.
Alan Clements, October 25, 2025
The ASEAN Summit — a rare visit that spotlights Southeast Asia’s delicate dance between great powers
Alan Clements, September 10, 2025
Act now as Suu Kyi is gravely ill
An urgent call to action warning of Aung San Suu Kyi’s deteriorating health and the irreversible cost of delay. Grounded in humanitarian law and moral duty, the piece demands immediate international response.
Alan Clements, November 7, 2025
The world’s silence and the woman who would not be silent
I urge every journalist, faith leader, and citizen of conscience to take 15 minutes and watch. It may alter how you see not only Aung San Suu Kyi, but the very idea of moral courage itself.
Alan Clements, November 6, 2025
The world’s silence and the woman who would not be silent: Aung San Suu Kyi and the work of truth
Let us be clear: Aung San Suu Kyi was never silent. Not on the Rohingya crisis. Not on her people’s suffering. Not on the imperatives of peace and reconciliation.
Fergus Harlow, July 6, 2025
A Theatre of Conscience: Q&A with Alan Clements
What if a book could confront a dictator—and invite his redemption?
Fergus Harlow, April 21, 2025
The myths that enabled Myanmar’s 2021 military coup
Three enduring myths helped set the stage for Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, all of them centred on Aung San Suu Kyi and her role in the Rohingya crisis
Fergus Harlow, March 16, 2025
In the shadow of empire: Myanmar’s battle for narrative control
In 2003, 80 percent of U.K. voters trusted the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to be objective; today, that figure has plummeted to just 38 percent, with problematic political coverage cited as the primary cause.
Clements & Harlow, February 5, 2025
Open Letter to World Leaders: Defend Myanmar’s Democracy, or Surrender SE Asia to Tyranny
Democracy is under attack – and Myanmar is the front line.
Fergus Harlow, February 2, 2025
Myanmar’s non-violent revolutionaries must not be forgotten
Stripped of numerous awards, disowned by the West, and erased from the very history she shaped, Suu Kyi enters her fifth year of solitary confinement.
Clements & Harlow, January 31, 2025
A call to defend Myanmar’s democracy and demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is Myanmar’s Nelson Mandela—a leader who has sacrificed everything for her country’s democratic rights.
Derek Tonkin, Network Myanmar, June 2025
Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow, January 31, 2025
Alan Clements, September 28, 2024
