NLD OFFICIAL POSITION: Panglong Agreement inferior to 2008 Constitution
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As Director general of the State Counselor Office Zaw Htay's official answer of May 2017, regarding Panglong Agreement query, resurfaced again on Facebook one...
Peace process stagnation and people’s aspiration to end the war
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When the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on 13 February 2018, adding impetus...
ARMED CLASHES IN PAPUN DISTRICT: An end to peaceful negotiation?
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When clashes broke out between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), and the Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) ...
Collective strength in the face of NLD government’s impotence?
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As if to demonstrate that the de facto government leader and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi is now ready to give more power...
Mon National-Level Political Dialogue: A way forward?
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The New Mon State Party (NMSP) together with the Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) finally signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on February 13, 2018,...
MYANMAR’S ETHNIC CONFLICT: Military playing hardball to derail peace negotiation process?
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During the Water Festival – Sarngkyan in Shan, Thingyan in Burmese, and Songkran in Thai - quite a lot has happened. The war in...
Constitutional Amendment Debacle: Time for NLD to make a profound choice
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The ex-President Htin Kyaw on Union Day, February 12, made a pledge to amend the constitution to become more federal and vowed to establish...
The aftermath of Myanmar’s new presidential election
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The eyes are on the newly elected President Win Myint, who came into the office due to the untimely resignation of Htin Kyaw, the...
MYANMAR’S REFUGEE AND IDP: Shan dislocation and dispossession after three decades.
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Recently, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) came up with an approximate figure of 1,900 internally displace persons (IDPs), due...
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The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has said that it has decided to withdraw from the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) ethnic...