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...
Tatmadaw’s repatriation of Kachin IDPs another good will gesture?
Just as the the Military or Tatmadaw's peace initiative in the form of unilateral ceasefire covering five military commands seems to be going down...
TATMADAW’S PEACE OVERTURES: Tactical military move or an offer of real olive branch?
The statement from the Tatmadaw comes after three ethnic armed groups that had previously been frozen out of the peace process – the Myanmar...
As the year ends, protracted ethnic conflict has expanded into the Rakhine State. The Arakan Army (AA), a new outfit that was formed only...
A Brief Commentary on Burma’s/Myanmar’s Civil War : Saw David Tharckabaw
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Written by: Saw David Tharckabaw, former Vice-Chairman of the Karen National Union and of the United Nationalities Federal Council
Inter-ethnic conflict in Shan State creates a cold war-like animosity
As if the problem in Rakhine State, that has provoked international and UN condemnation on Naypyitaw and ever since the Rohingya's exodus of some...
Informal meetings between four EAOs and NRPC: Trust-stimulating actions needed
By all accounts, the peace negotiation process is in shambles and there is no argument among stakeholders and observers alike about it It all started...
BURMA’S PEACE PROCESS: From stagnation to drawback?
With the recent confirmation of the Karen National Union (KNU) statement on November 10 made known, that it is withholding its non-participation position in...
