Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 19th, 2013 No Comments »
By Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak
BRUSSELS | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:17pm EDT
(Reuters) – The European Union is expected to lift all sanctions on Myanmar next week, except for an arms embargo, in recognition of the “remarkable process of reform” in the [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 8th, 2013 No Comments »
Communal violence in Myanmar
When the lid blows off
Sectarian violence was not supposed to be part of Myanmar’s bright new direction
Mar 30th 2013 | YANGON |From the print edition
WHEN Myanmar’s newly installed president and former soldier, Thein Sein, kick-started the country’s political transition two years ago, he hoped to usher in a clean and steady advance towards some sort [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 30th, 2013 No Comments »
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Fighting in Burma No let-up
The army continues its assault in Kachin state
Jan 26th 2013 | BEIJING |
SOME of the greatest achievements of the political transformation in Myanmar over the past two years have been the ceasefire agreements with some of the country’s numerous ethnic militia groups that are still fighting the government. The Karen, for instance in the [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 5th, 2013 No Comments »
Htun Aung Gyaw
Special to The Nation January 4, 2013 1:00 am
The battle between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Myanmar army escalated from a ground battle to a conflict with air strikes on December 28. Even if Myanmar troops capture the Kachin headquarters, this conflict will not stop there – [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 17th, 2012 No Comments »
Published (in Swedish) at frivärld.se/magasin, 13 November 2012
Burma: Peace Process in Deadlock
Joakim Kreutz
Burma The Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is currently travelling to visit Myanmar and he will soon be followed by the US President Barrack Obama. But is there hope about an actual democratization in the country formerly known as Burma? [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Oct 11th, 2012 No Comments »
Sino Burma Relations
Posted in Feature Articles on Sep 30th, 2012 No Comments »
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at Queen’s College, Queens Borough, New York City on Saturday 22 September 2012 and held a Meeting in English at 9 am for invited guests and a second meeting at 11 am in Burmese which was open to public. This article is mainly about the [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jul 11th, 2012 No Comments »
Banyan
The idea of Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi’s ethnic-minority problem
Jul 7th 2012 |
FEW outside her homeland would dream these days of criticising Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader. On her tour of Europe last [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jul 4th, 2012 No Comments »
Published on Fair Observer° (http://www.fairobserver.com)
http://www.fairobserver.com/article/myanmar-why-democracy-may-not-bring-peace
Myanmar: Why Democracy May Not Bring Peace
29 June 2012
Joakim Kreutz [5]
Myanmar needs to focus on civil security and extend its reforms into the ethnic minority areas.
Expectations are high in Myanmar. Yangon is a booming city on its way to become the next Asian metropolis, as investors and NGO’s are busily exploring [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on May 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Break Dancing to Beat the Junta
Shan Refugees use Hip Hop as a positive outlet for their creative energies, grief and anger.
By Antonio Graceffo
One of my Shan friends, who we will call Hsai Tai Yai for security reasons, escaped from the war zone in Burma and made it to Thailand, where he managed to complete two [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 9th, 2012 No Comments »
I understand that the KNU delegation was taken to Nay Pyi Daw to meet with U Thein Sein. Good but why it is not in the agenda or announced that the delegation was going to that Junta made capital? Is it that the regime is openly if not cunningly using the delegation for [...]
Posted in Feature Articles, WORLD Digest on Mar 26th, 2012 No Comments »
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – Isolated and impoverished by decades of international sanctions, Myanmar (Burma) has emerged in recent months as both a beacon of hope and a potential new Asian flashpoint. [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 9th, 2012 No Comments »
Please find attached from the Burma Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (BCPR):
· BCPR Analysis Paper No 1 – The Dynamics of Sixty Years of Ethnic Armed Conflict in Burma
· BCPR Briefing Paper No 2 – The Conflict In Kachin State – Time To Revise The [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 18th, 2012 1 Comment »
by Abid Bahar PhD
What is Genocide? What is Rohingya genocide? When did it began? In which part of Burma is this taking place? Are there refugees taking shelter in the neighboring countries? Who are the parties involved?, What should be done about it? Does it have anything to do with Rohingya’s [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
The so called amnesty announced by Burma’s Thein Sein government on January 2nd, 2012 shattered the dreams of the political prisoners, their families and the Burmese democratic societies. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton clearly stated that if there is no visible improvement for change, including releasing of all political prisoners, [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Burmese Perspective
The Regime War against Humanitarianism
Kanbawza Win
The international community was shock and aghast when the Burmese military regime turned down the humanitarian aid offered by the international community after the Nargis Cyclone hit the country in May 2008 killing some 200,000 people and making millions homeless. The United Nations practically had to [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 12th, 2011 1 Comment »
Myanmar Times
The head of the Euro-Burma Office, Mr Harn Yawnghwe, on his role in last month’s negotiations on the Thai-Myanmar border, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in peacebuilding and the need to achieve a ‘political solution’ with ethnic groups
By Shwe Yinn Mar Oo
Volume 31, No. 605
December 12 – 18, [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit [...]