Did Aung San Lead at Panglong – or Follow?
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LONDON -Visitors to Yangon, Myanmar will quickly find that one name carries more weight than any other: Aung San. Cutting west to east across...
Myanmar’s Myths of Ethnic Unity
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Matthew J Walton muses on the effects of misleading narratives of the independence era. The myths of ethnic unity are alive and well in contemporary...
UNODC’s Jeremy Douglas: ‘Myanmar really is the epicentre of the drug trade’
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On June 26, the government commemorated the International Day Against Drug Abuse by burning illicit drugs with a street value of more than US$200...
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We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn the arrest, detention and prosecution of six people, including three journalists, under the 1908 Unlawful Associations Act...
Is it time to revive the ‘Dirty List’ of companies helping Burma’s military?
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Dear friend Is it time to revive the ‘Dirty List’ of companies helping Burma’s military? In 2002, Burma Campaign UK published the first ‘Dirty List’ of...
Commentary on “Are media being oppressed ?”
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Sithu Aung Myint is suggesting that the reporters should try within the limited freedom of expression to shed light as much as possible objectively. He...
Commentary on “Building trust at Panglong”
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Talking about "trust and trust-building”, we need to come to the root cause of where stimulation to achieve "trust" could be motivated. What exactly must...
600 villagers hold forest blessing ceremony to oppose coal mining in Nam Ma
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On June 23, 2017, about 600 people from over 30 villages gathered in Nam Ma village tract, Hsipaw township, northern Shan State, to hold...
Commentary on “Fears for 3 journalists arrested by military in Shan State”
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Picking fight with the media is certainly not a very wise act for the Tatmadaw, especially when it is trying hard to portray itself...
Commentary on “Understanding the Tatmadaw’s ‘Standard Army’ reforms”
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The most important point in the whole article is a sentence, which stated: "Although the government has made structural adjustments to the civil-military coordination...





