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January 2016

Maintaining Arms Embargo is Crucial to Peace Process

Khu Oo Reh, The Irrawaddy | January 28, 2016 In 2016,the question of lifting the on-going arms embargo and related sanctions against the Tatmadaw, as the Burma Army is known, and its civilian cronies will [...]

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UNFC on NCA and Internal Peace

Foreword Burma/Myanmar, after receiving independence on January 4, 1948 from the British colonialists in accordance with the Panlong Agreement, was accompanied by the civil war. Since the rulers of successive eras have tried to end [...]

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New Approach Needed for Genuine Peace in Burma

Bertil Lintner / The Irrawaddy | January 10, 2016 Everything is looking good as the Burmese government and a number of ethnic armed groups prepare for a political dialog, which is soon to begin. On [...]

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October 2015

The Burma NCA – The True Situation: 17 Against, 5 For

Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | October 1, 2015 Agents of Burma's military dictatorship have published a great amount of propaganda about the country's nationwide ceasefire negotiation. Many incompetent journalists have also repeated the propaganda. Because [...]

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September 2015

Burma – Free and Fair Elections?

Karen News | September 28, 2015 The people of Burma will go the polls on November 8, 2015. Karen News talked to a wide range of people to get their views on the election and [...]

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Ceasefire Wonderland

According to accepted negotiating practice, no agreement is better than a bad agreement. Nonetheless, many ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are now agreeing to sign the current Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). It is as if – just like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – these EAOs have gone down a rabbit hole into a Ceasefire Wonderland created by the Tatmadaw [Burma’s armed forces] […]

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August 2015

Through the Eyes of an IDP

Burma Link | August 19th, 2015 Through the Eyes of an Internally Displaced Rohingya The Rohingya, often referred to as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, live in the Arakan State (also known as [...]

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OPINION: What’s Holding up Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire?

Maung Zarni / DVB | August 12, 2015 Last week, the ninth round of ceasefire negotiations between Burma’s quasi-civilian government and the negotiators representing the country’s Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) ended without any conclusive agreement in [...]

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