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ACTS OF GENOCIDE ACCUSSATION: Thaung Tun and Company’s Geneva Lobby

On March 9, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights told a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland that...

Government facing international negative opinion onslaught and peace process stagnation

The National League for Democracy (NLD) regime is overwhelmed by the international negative opinion onslaught on Rohingya crisis and as well the peace process...

LASHIO AND SITTWE BOMBINGS: Urban guerrilla warfare in the making?

First there was the unpleasant news of bombing of Yoma Bank, also affecting nearby Aya Bank, in northern Shan State capital Lashio, where 2 employees...

Unfolding blood teak scenario or struggle for rights of self-determination?

Natural resource exploitation plays a very important role in Myanmar ethnic conflict spectrum like in all the other conflict-ridden societies, so much so it...

71st ANNIVERSARY UNION DAY: A reconciliation ray of  hope from the NLD?

Once again the 71st Anniversary Union Day was celebrated with the aim, as prescribed by the National League for Democracy (NLD) government according to...

Planned Dawei SEZ two-lane highway controversy

As the Myanmar's Union Government announced its plans to resume the construction of a two-lane highway, connecting Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Thai-Myanmar...

Gearing up for 2020 general elections?

The recent President Htin Kyaw's January 4, Independence Day's speech outlining  the amendment of the constitution could now be considered as an opening campaign...

UNFC TO FADE AWAY: How will the government handle the FPNCC?

As one could just enthusiastically proclaims “and then there were ten,” to the 8 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) another two,...

Learning to share #29: The PPST Emergency

(11-12 January 2018)  Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) In December, I was planning to travel...

Signatory EAOs responded with postponement of the 21CPC to the Tatmadaw’s heavy-handedness

Simultaneously shortly after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) doled out a statement to postpone the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC),...

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