CHIANG MAI-May 6. Burma News International (BNI) will launch its latest report: Deciphering Myanmar’s Peace Process a Reference Guide 2014, on May 7 at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok.
According to the invitation letter: “As Myanmar enters year-three of its transformation to a quasi-democracy, BNI’s Peace Monitoring team continues its efforts in tracking all activities and facts related to peace process that largely began in earnest 2011.”
The book will be presented by Mr. Sai Leik, a director of Myanmar’s Peace Process Monitoring team, Nan Paw Gay, chief editor of the Karen Information Center (KIC) and Mr. Khuensai Jaiyen, executive director of the Pyidaungsu Institute.
The panel will present the book and discuss issues related to peace, including the continue fighting continued fighting in Kachin and Shan states, which have caused several thousand people to be displaced in the past few weeks along the Burma-China border.
BNI’s Peace Process Monitoring launched its first book in March 2013.
BNI is an alliance of 13 independent media organizations; nine of them represent different ethnic nationalities in Burma.