Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story News Rohingya
As the incoming head of state, the moral and political responsibility to end the slow genocide in Burma will fall squarely on Suu Kyi’s shoulders.
In the midst of optimism among the mainstream Burmese majority as well as the international cheerleaders of the ‘Myanmar Spring’, it is high time for our four leaders to snap out of the dark legacies of the past military rule.
Contributor Lead Story News Opinion Peace Process
With good reason, ethnic delegates view Burma’s authorities as locked in an internally colonial mindset vis-à-vis minorities, says analyst Maung Zarni.
2015 Elections Contributor Lead Story News Opinion Politics
The November polls will change nothing; the military will stay in charge, says Burmese dissident Maung Zarni.
Sixty-six years ago, Aung San and some of his closest advisors were killed along with their dreams of a a multiculturalist, secular Burma
Thein Sein needs to be held accountable for his government’s policies and comments made by the members of his cabinet
The government’s ongoing war against the Kachin continues to demonstrate that the country’s leaders are more interested in empire building than nation building
According to independent Burmese researchers, many locals suspect President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government was the real culprit behind the racial violence in western Burma this summer
What does the ongoing violence against the Rohingyas tell us about the nature of political power and the people who still rule the country?
Wall Street venture capitalists, European development agencies and Burma’s rulers share one belief in common: that the country’s war zones are virgin but strategic lands that must be penetrated
Suu Kyi’s live video forum with London-based intellectuals and Amartya Sen lessened the decades-old divide between ‘here and there’
International players should forget about eyeing a long-term transition and instead start investing in initiatives to empower ethnic Burma
