UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS: The need to value the rights of mankind
These days, the Myanmar leadership is bogged down by several lawsuit proceedings which include International Criminal Court (ICC), International Court of Justice (ICJ) and...
CULTURE OF POLITICAL DIALOGUE: Fading hope to resolve ethnic conflict?
With the rise of armed conflict violence, branching out into assassination, random shooting, abduction, extrajudicial punishment, the country seems to be “widening the space...
CULTURE OF ANGST: A need for conducive atmosphere in peace-building
Lately, news seeping out from government sources indicate that the much talked about bilateral ceasefire negotiation between the Northern Alliance – Burma (NA-B) and...
THE CASE OF GEN AUNG SAN STATUE: Karenni activists await court verdict
As the three prominent political activists – former Myanmar army Captain Nay Myo Zin, poet Saw Wai and lawyer U Kyi Myint – were...
FOURTH NCA ANNIVERSARY: A peace process drawback
The Fourth Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Signing Anniversary, which supposed to be convened on the actual date of October 15, was held on October...
GOVERNMENT AND EAOS RELATION: Restarting peace process with four-point agreement agenda
On the heels of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement-Signatory-Ethnic Armed Organizations (NCA-S-EAO) three-day meeting that ended on October 12, the Peace Commission (PC), under the ...
FOREIGN AID: A row has broken out between government and EAOs on developmental help
As if to restart the stagnated peace negotiation process stalled more than a year is not difficult enough to overcome, on behalf of the...
NCA-Signatory EAOs Oppose Govt Demand to Report Aid
Ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) signatory to Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have come out against a recent government statement that they must report international...
NATION-BUILDING DEBACLE: Failure of Burmanization through institutionalized assimilation
When the three Karen activists Naw Ohn Hla, Saw Elbert Cho and Sa Thein Zaw Min were released, due to the fact that they...
NLD’S ETHNIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: Is the formation a recipe to win or self-destruction?
On September 22, the National League for Democracy (NLD) announced at a press conference following its Ethnic Affairs Committee meeting, in Yangon, the formation...
