Analysis
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Burma’s commander-in-chief, speaking at the graduation ceremony for the military’s Medical Academy in Rangoon on Friday, 21 December, that...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
According to Aung Thaw, Deputy Defense Minister, as reported by Reuters last month, “the military is both the architect and guardian of his country’s...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The most prominent inquiry commission set up in Burma’s new history was the Frontier Areas Commission of Enquiry (FACE) in 1947. Its job was to find...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
I was thinking about catchwords – well known phrases that would reflect the situation and the players involved – when the Palaung Women’s...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
First of all, I would like to make it loud and clear I don’t consider myself wise. Only that I’m still finding my way to that sublime state. I would...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
They say there are two sides to every question. But when it comes to Burma/Myanmar, there are three sides: military supremacy, democracy and state...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Burma’s history since Independence in 1948 is a series of promises made by the government and broken by the military. Outstanding examples:
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
In the urban areas, political and social reforms are plainly visible to everyone. But in the rural areas, the military is still riding roughshod over...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
I used to be a proponent for a United States of Burma, made up of 8 constituent states, including a Burma state.
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Last Friday, Lt-Gen Ko Ko, military-appointed home minister and Chairman of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), during a meeting...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
On 21 September, the President’s chief negotiating aide U Aung Min, who was in New York ahead of his boss, told Reuters that the government was “...
January 18, 2013
| KIC
A number of reports by a diverse range of international and local organizations have scrutinized Burma’s government and while applauding recent...
January 18, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The first time I learned about the existence of the Arakanese, or Rakhaing as we call them, was when I started to graduate from reading comics to...
January 18, 2013
| KIC
Since December, Burma Army’s use of helicopter gunships and jets to support ground offensives against Kachin Independence Army (KIA), with civilians...
January 17, 2013
| KNG
Brussels based think tank stated that the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) “is not blameless” for the ongoing and increasingly bloody Kachin...