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NATIONAL-LEVEL POLITICAL DIALOGUE: The eighth UPDJC meeting a step forward?

The much awaited Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting from 28 to 29 October in Naypyitaw was hailed as a step forward in...

“The Secret Army”: What Shans may like to know

The book has been published since 2011. But it is only this year I have the luck to receive a copy from a friend...

To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day 7-9)

To Hopeland and Back: The 22nd trip Day Seven. Sunday, 16 October 2016 Here in this deep and boundless waste, where shore is none to...

To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day-6) Part II

Day six. Saturday, 15 October 2016 (Continued) Who art thou, striving manfully here in mid-ocean far from land? Who is the friend thou trustest in, to...

To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day-6) Part I

Day Six. Saturday, 15 October 2016 Not by violence is violence ended Violence is ended by non-violence. A tale from the Buddha’s 550 jatakas, by Danai Chanchaochai,...

To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip

Day Two-Four. Tuesday-Thursday, 11-13 October 2016  Money sings. And I love music. Charlton Heston, Secret of the Incas (1954) I hesitate to write about the workshop...

FINALIZING INCOMPREHENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR POLITICAL DIALOGUE: Is UNFC to be blamed?  

As the war in Kachin and Shan States has been going on and off for a few years, with a newly exploded rebellion of...

To Hopeland and Back: The 22nd trip

The following journal is about what had taken place during my last trip to attend the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signing anniversary which was...

IS PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE POSSIBLE? : Mounting offensives against ethnic armies and new violent outburst in Arakan State

Quite a lot of happening have been unfolding during the last few days. But the most outstanding one is the new conflict in Arakan...

BURMA ARMY ON WARPATH: Why Aung San Suu Kyi is unable to deliver?

On the heels of the massive anti-war demonstration in Myitkyina, involving thousands of demonstrators, United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) issued a seven point statement...

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