Tatmadaw’s animosity mindset biggest barrier to peace and reconciliation
Scanning the news as usual, I recently came across a piece of news regarding the two civilians who were wounded due to the unexploded...
High time for the Shan to unite
All eyes have been long on the inter-ethnic conflict between the two Shan armies in northern Shan state, even though the initial spark of...
55th SSPP FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY: Will a show of good will be recognized?
On April 24, the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and its military wing Shan State Army (SSA) held an event commemorating its 55th founding...
CREATION OF NEW SUB-STATE: Problems of national state demand by the Wa
The aftermath of the United Wa State Party/Army (UWSP/UWSA) ceasefire anniversary burdened all of us with its new national state or sub-state demand reiterated...
Health Convergence in Myanmar: An Ethnic Perspective
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by Martin Over the past seven years, ethnic health organizations (EHOs) and community-based health organizations (CBHOs), which have provide health services to ethnic populations in the...
Commentary on “Tatmadaw likens Arakan Army demands to ‘a child daydreaming’”
What Major-General Soe Naing Oo, chair of the Tatmadaw’s True News Information Team, said at a press briefing in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday...
Positive expectation of Naypyitaw meeting will be minimal
With the flare up incidence of March 18 in Arakan state Marauk-U, where the AA and as well the Tatmadaw are blaming each other...
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION: NLD-led constitutional amendment or NCA-based political settlement
As the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-based peace process negotiation stagnated, the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led initiative constitutional amendment within the parliament started to...
My Father’s Memoir to his Children
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My father, Sao Hseng Ong (1926-2012), was the second son of Sao Shwe Thaike, the Sao Hpa Long of Yawnghwe, and the first President...
ARAKAN CONFLICT: The Arakan Army assertiveness or an act of self-defense?
The January 4 deadly early morning raids of the four police outposts by the Arakan Army (AA) that inflicted heavy causality to the police...
