Burmese Diplomacy and Repression
(Why the West should not Invest or Lift Sanctions on Burma)
Kanbawza Win
Diplomacy

Even though man is essentially an economic animal and greed always supersedes the need, great caution should be taken by the Western world regarding Burma. They should not to be too excited or hysteria about the opening of Burma [...]

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Imagine- The Burmese Regime Swindling the European Union

Kanbawza Win

As a person who had worked at the European Union in Brussels, came as a shock to hear that the Foreign Affairs Council of the E U had adopted conclusions in favour of the current situation in Burma and is suspending the visa [...]

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Myanmarnization of the Ethnic Nationalities
(The betrayal of the Ideals of Bogyoke Aung San)
Kanbawza Win
When the Panglong Agreement was signed in 1947 the Shan, Chin and Kachin want to speed up their own search for freedom together with the Myanmar brothers based on the principle of equality mutual trans and recognition and not to integrate [...]

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Kanbawza Win

Now Bo Khin Nyunt (I just call him “Bo” meaning captain in Burmese because he was just a captain that used to come and stand at my table when he was serving as PA to Col Tint Swe attached to the Prime Minister Office when I was the Foreign Affairs Secretary to the [...]

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Kanbawza Win
Looking at my beloved country I recollect Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last Komissar of the Soviet Union who tried his level best to save the Communist system through long-necessary reforms, as what the Burmese regime is doing now in releasing hundreds of political prisoners. It also catches two birds with a stone in placating [...]

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Kanbawza Win
The quasi civilian administration of Burma, unveil a new technique when La Nan, the joint secretary of the KIO announced that “the  KIO’s peace-building committee and the government peace-building committee agreed to meet in Ruili,” while at the same time the Burmese regime is launching an all out war of genocide against the ethnic [...]

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Kanbawza Win

Even though there was a euphoria over the political prisoners’ release and the US reward it with the raising of the diplomatic relations to the ambassador lever one has to take caution that the “Divide and Rule Policy” which the various Burmese administration inherited from the British, has been put to [...]

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A Burmese Perspective
Why should the West Fall into Burmese Trap?

Kanbawza Win
I was contemplating, whether the Burmese regime would be able to deceive the West after tricking its own People? Lamentably I could not find the answer as it seems now. I simply could not comprehend of why the foreign dignitaries believed what their advisers [...]

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Than Shwe wants to be remember like Kim Jong IL and not Pol Pot
Kanbawza Win

The common denominator of these three men are cruelty, brutality, ruthlessness, and secrecy that had set-up a tyranny which simultaneously oppressed and starved its people to an almost unique degree to sustain their own regime. All of them have directly or [...]

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Kanbawza Win
Sanctions and other punitive actions on Burma should  be maintained by the US and  Western nations for the simple reason that the current regime is not interested in political solutions and is mounting an all out  war against the Kachin ethnic nationalities, practicing ethnic cleansing and committing gross human rights violations on all other [...]

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A Burmese Perspective

An Analysis of President Obama’s Speech in the New Cold War

Kanbawza Win

The rise of China in every respect in today’s geopolitical situation has created a new bipolar world compounded by the fact that in 2000 years China, for the first time has access to the Indian via Burma due [...]

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Kanbawza Win
The Burmese supremo Than Shwe and his bunch of generals have amassed immense wealth since 1988 but most of them being septuagenarian and octogenarian knew that their days on this earth are numbered. At the same time they realise that the rising tide of democracy cannot be stop, hence, the thought of how to [...]

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By Henri-André Aye

There is a growing trend toward manifestation against the tyrants in the developing world. In several countries, people assist in multiplication of social movements, often initiated by the youths, reclaiming more freedom, justice, and equal rights. These movements are the sign of willingness to change the governing system. Burma is one [...]

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(Sino-Burma Relations)
Kanbawza Win
In May, Osama bin-Laden was shot dead that sent the relations between Pakistan and US into a tailspin and obviously Pakistan, still depending on billions of dollars in civilian and military aid from Washington began to look Beijing as an alternative for a strategic counter weight to India. This was confirmed when Pakistan’s [...]

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Kanbawza Win

It came to no surprise and is well expected that ICG, (international Crisis Group) came up on the side of the Burmese military bullies against the entire people of Burma and the international community as it had always done, since the Burmese Junta assumes power in 1988. But I would humbly like to point [...]

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Kanbawza Win
There is a Burmese saying, “A snake sees the legs of another snake.” meaning only the Burmese can see the craftiness and the cunningness of another Burmese, as they are the same birds of a feather, whereas a foreigner however expert he/she may be, have not gone through the experience of living in [...]

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The Union Perspective
Blue Print for Standing Together
Kanbawza Win
International Scene
Burma has been a pariah nation since 1988, shun by the civilized international community. The Burmese army is reviled domestically and around the world. This is galling to the men in uniforms and naturally these Generals want to sit smart in the community of the [...]

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04jul11 Bloody

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