MANAGING BURMA’S ETHNIC CONFLICT: Subjugation and suppression lead to secession urge (Part I)
With the ethnic conflict war of more than 72 years, a time span as old as the country's independence from the British when in...
BOOK REVIEW: Rebel Politics – A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands
A new book came out in October 2019, titled “Rebel Politics - A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands,” written by David...
Rejection of Kengtung Palace land appeal shows callous disregard for ethnic rights
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By Pippa Curwen Date: 26/2/2020 The Burmese government’s recent rejection of community appeals for the return of the former Kengtung Palace site in eastern Shan State...
Book Review : Myanmar’s Political Transition and Lost Opportunities (2010-2016)
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Book title : Myanmar’s Political Transition and Lost
Opportunities (2010-2016) Author : Ye Htut Date
of publication: 1 October 2019 Price : $ 42.04
(Amazon.com) Two
excellent reviews have already been...
Government’s “total peace” in 2020 realizable?
The opinion piece of January 1, 2020 The Global New Light of Myanmar wrote that "Our new year resolution should be “total peace” in...
We have been deeply sunk in civil war, or should we say ethnic conflict war, ever since the inception of Union of Burma in...
ETHNIC CONFLICT ESCALATION: NA-B raids in Pyin Oo Lwin and Nawngkhio
In the pre-dawn early hours of August 15, three members out four belonging to the Northern Alliance – Burma (NA-B), the Arakan Army (AA),...
THE SHOWDOWN BEGINS: Constitutional amendment debacles
Following the July 15, 45-member constitutional reform committee submission to the Union Parliament, in a report which includes over 3,700 recommendations covering 457 provisions...
United States’ Burma Political Prisoners Assistance Act to sail through ?
On July 10, senator Edward J. Markey (Democrat - Massachusetts) and Marsha Blackburn (Republican - Tennessee) introduced legislation bill prioritizing the release of political...
GOVERNMENT-KNU LAND POLICY ROW: NLD functionary arrested by KNU on land dispute
On July 5, Kyaikmayaw township National League for Democracy (NLD) news and information team member and also NLD Kyonekwe village general secretary Saw Kaung...
